Rushing Ocean Morning

Dip your hands into the sunrise,

Drag your fingers through the frothing blue sky,

Light springs through the cracks in the walls,

Sliding across the floor,

Golden and still-wet from shining on the sea.

It is a new morning, and the world shivers in its sudden nakedness.

All is laid bare, so do not be surprised if you also tremble.

The Lord's laughter cajoles us out of bed,

His whispered words send pink clouds to clothe the fresh first minutes of day.

He is the Prince of Peace and He wants to share His depths with us - 

So He has made another day, another infinite amount of chances,

to follow in His footsteps.

Quick, run to the shore! to the edge of the Vastness that is your soul.

Let not fear still your movement.

Let the sea kiss your toes,

Let the sand grace your knees,

Let prayer sing from your lips.

You will then see large footprints in the sand;

God's offering to follow Him to the Temple in His heart from which all Goodness is born.

If you wish to dare to love, fully and with passion,

Offer your body, your self, your words, your freckles and your skin,

To the bright and shining sea.

Pearls glint at you from pockets of red coral and there are waving green seaweeds 

And golden sand.

Let go of your breath,

Forget yourself to find your Self,

In the rushing ocean morning. 

Rocking Rhythm

                                                         I live with a broken heart no longer.

In fact, I don’t have a heart any more at all.

If you place your hand upon my chest you will not feel a beat.

I grew tired of envy, and worry, and grief,

So I rode my bicycle to the ocean and filled myself up with water

All the way down to my feet.

I live with a weak pulse no longer.

In fact, i don’t have a pulse any more at all.

If you place your fingers upon my wrist you will not feel a single throb.

I grew tired of sadness, and fear, and hate,

So i rode my bicycle to the top of a mountain and filled myself up with snow

All the way down to my fingers and toes.

Once I was cold and wet all the way through

I swam across the seven seas to a beautiful island

Where all my friends were waiting for me.

We danced and we sang all night long

Letting our hair dangle far into space

As we caught stars in the salty tangles, miles of glowing lace.

Finally we lay down to sleep;

A mess of brown limbs and resting eyes.

We breathed deeply and fully and sometimes our dreams made us sigh

As we played in the astral and worked out our lives.

When the sun woke up we did too, stretching and yawning.

Young souls get hungry after a night playing tag

In the valleys and mountains of God’s wrinkles!

So we rode our bicycles to market to buy food for a feast.

But when we got to the field there were no orderly bins and lines,

Just hundreds of people wearing nothing but smiles!

We caught on quickly and stripped off our clothes

Then raced to a huge basket filled with tangelos.

We were soon covered in sweetness and full to the brim

So we went to the ocean for a surf and a swim.

I leaped into the blueness and it filled the empty spaces within me

As i let out all my air and drifted to the sandy bottom.

The rocking rhythm of the waves passing over me

Swept away all the impurities from my soul.

I kicked my legs above my head,

Watching when the sun danced through the water

And shone through the thin bit of skin between my toes.

Then something magnificent caught my eye --

At first it looked like a gentle blue whale swimming toward me,

But as it got closer I realized it was a dappled brown turtle,

And then I blinked and it was a bright piece of broken coral.

Then sand got in my eye and when it cleared I realized

It wasn’t a whale or a turtle or a piece of coral;

It was my heart I’d given up long ago.

It had followed me out of the ocean where I left it,

Struggled behind me up the mountain,

Then swam across the seven seas to my beautiful island.

My heart had lain beside me every night while I slept, 

And now it had found me when I was finally ready.

I reached out my hand to greet my old friend,

And my heart drifted into my fingers.

I clasped it gently and put it back in my chest where it belonged,

And it quickly melted the rest of the cold snow from my toes.

My friends appeared, swimming beside me.

They were smiling and blowing bubbles;

They could see my heart and I had found each other again,

Reunited beneath the rocking rhythm of the ocean waves.