The Offering

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Let It Out

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There's a child inside of me
fragile as a kite caught on a tree
asking ÒIs it safe to be?Ó
I want to let her out.

Her heart is open wide
and she takes everything inside.
Her habit's been to hide,
but I want to let her out.

I can't tell her
that there is no cause for fear.
But I can tell her:
We're all God's children here.

There's a song inside my soul
rising like a wave I can't control.
Singing makes me whole.
I've got to let it out.

She speaks to me
in whispers and in screams.
She weeps with me
and nourishes my dreams.

And like many artists do,
she paints in every hue -
joy and sorrow too.
I've got to let it out.

There's a miracle in me
greater than the parting of the sea.
It's a miracle to be!
I've got to let it out.

Choose One

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This is a big place where we life forms hang -
nothing but time and space ever since the big bang.
You've got a blank page and some crayons
You've got your own stage you can play on...

You've heard about this passion play.
Well, God is giving parts away
and you get to choose one.
You get to choose one.

You can choose to think small or fly high.
You can even imagine a wall and not try.
You can stand there frozen at the crossroads
knowing when you've chosen,
there will be lost roads;
but every gain involves a loss,
regardless of the coin you toss.
Why don't you choose one?
You may as well choose one.

If not here on Earth, where then?
If not you, who?
If not now, when?

It's such a hard math to try to calculate.
Is the right path? - Is this my soul mate?
Is this the right time to make a new start?
You've got to go out of your mind
to get into your heart.

All rivers take you to one place.
All lovers lead you to one face.
Why don't you choose one
Why don't you choose one.

It's just a brief stop that we make here -
kind of like a short walk off a long pier.
You can make your life a dance, or go out cursing
that you never took a chance; you were rehearsing.
Care diem Ôtil it's gone.
There are a billion stars to wish upon.
Why don't you choose one.
Why don't you choose one.

You've heard about this passion play.
Well, God is giving parts away.
And you get to choose one.
You get to choose one.
Why don't you choose one.
Why don't you choose one.

Blue Sky

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I see you standing on a ledge
surrounded by blue sky.
Life has pushed you to the edge.
And you know it's do or die.
You can freeze that frame
but how long can you stall?
You can glance below
and worry that you'll fall.
Or you can follow spirit
when you hear it call
and risk it all.

You can claim to have no choice.
You can find someone to blame.
You can choose to have no voice;
but you're choosing just the same.
You can play the victim,
but what will you gain?
You can rail at God
until you go insane,
or you can open
to the blessing in the pain
and break the chain.

Take the reins.
Break the chains.

Surely there must be
guardian angels watching over you and me.
And no place where God is not.
But how much are you willing to receive?
It shall be given unto you
according to how you believe.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah.

You can isolate your soul.
You can separate your heart.
You can break off from the whole
and claim to be a part.
You can throw away
the puzzle piece you hold.
You can bury or invest
your piece of gold.
Or you can tell the greatest story
ever told - and let life unfold.

I see you standing on a ledge
surrounded by blue sky.

The Offering

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This river is a mighty one;
I have to trust its flow
But if you asked me where it's taking us,
I wouldn't say I know.
But I will go there willingly;
she's never led me astray.
And I've only be bruised
when I've refused to get out of my way.

So, I wouldn't stop the rain.
No, I wouldn't stop the rain.
What good would it do?
And I wouldn't trade the pain,
or mess with the math that created the path
that eventually led to you , my love.
I give you my love.

And when I say love
I mean a love that will stay love
through every change that could betray love
and the vicissitudes of time.
I mean mature love,
unconditional and pure love.
The kind of love I feel with your love,
I want you to feel with mine.

And if I had it to do over now
I am certain of one thing -
when the carousel came back around
I would still reach for that ring.
I would still reach for your arms, my love,
despite the pain that reach could bring.
I would still say Ôyes' to life and love
and accept the offering.

And I wouldn't stop the sun.
No, I wouldn't stop the sun -
What good would it do?
And I would rather stand than run
and squarely face the warmth and grace
of a blessing when it comes, my love.
I give you my love.

And when I say love
I mean a love that will stay love
through every change that could betray love
and the vicissitudes of time.
I mean mature love,
unconditional and pure love.
The kind of love I feel with your love,
I want you to feel with mine.

Life

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Life is a pretty great place to be
if you don't mind mystery,
if you can keep an open mind,
and dance when the coals are burning hot,
and forget them when they're not,
and just move with the energy.

And revel in the sunshine when it's on your face.
And put a layer on when winter takes its place.

Love is a very sweet place to be
if you don't mind company
and a little bit of pain sometimes;
for we are connected at the source
and life will take its course
and bring us into unity.

I feel a family growing based on love and trust.
We've such a flock of angels watching over us...

That I feel a hope I've never felt
that the hardest rocks will melt
and a new landscape will come in view, for Earth,
when in love and light and grace
we begin to take our places
and each do what we came to do.

It doesn't have to be the way it's always been.
We can break the patterns now and start again...

In love, a very sweet place to be
if you don't mind harmony,
if you can keep an open heart
and dance when the coals are burning hot
and forget them when they're not
and just move with the energy - of life.

(la la la la la la la la - la la la la la la la la)

Guide Me

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Guide me
beyond the labyrinths that hide me.
Sometimes I'm frightened
like a child left in a crowd.
I feel like a child left in a crowd -
trying to find your face;
I must have looked everyplace,
but inside me.

Wake me.
If you need to you can shake me -
whatever it takes to see,
to find you everywhere I am.
Teach me to touch the ground.
Wear my resistance down.
Remake me.

Woo me.
Like a lover would, pursue me.
Renew me
again and again and again.
Tune me, then hold me near.
Play something sweet and clear.
Come through me.

A Brighter Way of Being

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In my mind, prepare a place
like a candle in a windless place
or a vessel for your grace.

Soothe the heart singed with pain.
Bathe it in your healing rain.
Teach it how to sing your name.

I seem to remember
a brighter way of being.
I seem to remember
a closer walk with Thee.

I pray for recollection,
Oneness of perception,
a deepening connection.

Take this ego by the hand
and relieve it of command.
Let it seek a higher plan.

And this body, where it's tight,
where it tries to block the light,
ask it to give up the fight.

I seem to remember
a brighter way of being.
I seem to remember
a closer walk with Thee.

I pray for recollection,
Oneness of perception,
a deepening connection.

Light Like Yours

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Like a seed blown to Earth,
divinely conceived, you take birth.
Your gifts are the oceans
and the trees.
And you are theirs.

You walk with gods while angels
flock around your head;
and yet your feet are on the ground.
In time you'll find the gold
is not at some journey's end,
but one of the colors
that surrounds you.

You can scan the dome of night for
portals where heaven's light pours.
And yes, it's bright,
but it's only light like yours -
light like yours.

A light like yours might be
hard for you to see
until it lights up someone else.
Well, look into my eyes
and I'll hold a mirror up,
so you can see it for yourself.

You can sail to distant shores,
chase the light and trace its source,
but don't be surprised
if your journey comes full course
to light like yours.

Mundaka (from the Mundaka Upanishad)

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We are two birds, perched on one tree.
You eat the fruit of this world's pleasure and pain
while I look on.
I'm the one who is standing by you
When you die it is I who remain.

Eyes can not see, nor speech describe me.
Not be reason nor by effort am I known.
Not by ritual, nor by merit,
but by the grace of the Self, the Self is shown

Pure and resplendent,
I shine in a mind that is calm,
when the knots of the heart are loosed
and the senses are withdrawn.

With consciousness as your arrow,
and meditation as your bow,
make me your target;
pull back your mind
and let if fly home

Free your mind of sense distraction.
In attachment to action desires bind.
But find the goal of all desiring.
and you will leave both birth and death behind

I am life. I am speech. I am mind.
I am immortality.
Everything that moves or breathes
or blinks has its being in me.
In your inmost heart I dwell -
that is my citadel.
There is no space I do not fill.
Through my light all these others shine.

The unchanging alone prevails -
not the changing.
The unchanging alone
brings lasting fulfillment.

Within everything, without everything - unborn.
I am even beyond the tendency to take form.
Just as rivers running to the sea
lose their individuality,
so the enlightened merge with me,
no longer bound by name or form.

The unchanging alone prevails -
not the changing.
The unchanging alone
brings lasting fulfillment.

Handiwork of God

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You come like sunlight through a window
to the hallway of my heart.
Grace is illuminating places
that have only known the dark.
I've never been so blessed
to have met someone.
I never would have guessed
that you'd come for me -
I'd lost all faith in the Mystery,
in the handiwork of God.

Oceans, oceans of illusion
can seem difficult to cross.
Weaving from ego-based confusion,
little boats get lost.
But you reach out your hand
and your heart to me.
And I catch a glimpse of land
from a window through
a self-made wall.
And it doesn't seem so far away at all.

Now I know that the way is a way to be -
not a destination or a road.
Now I know what you meant
when you said enlightenment meant
lightening the load, lightening the load.
Letting go of the past and the pain we hold.
Making room for the light to come in.
All we ever need is to be a hollow reed.
God gives us the wind, gives us the wind.

Tears come, as if from a baby,
in a gentle, healing rain.
Lately, I don't know why I cry
but it's the sweetest kind of pain.
When I saw your face, I believed again.
I believed again in grace.
And for once I knew
how great God's love must be;
for God gave you to me.

Ships

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Many drift and some drown -
pilgrims to this port town
waiting for their ship to come,
peering through a fogbank,
fearing that their god sank.
Maybe this could be the one.

But I'm not sure
we'd all recognize our ships,
even if the sea were dredged;
for boats unnamed
go everyday unclaimed,
then sail off the edge...

It's easier to stay here,
in this sheltered bay here -
setting sail, we may capsize.
Obstacles surround us.
We could run aground
just waiting for the tide to rise.

Too many times
I've hung my lyre on a tree
when the world seemed strange.
It's easier to curse the way things are
then to make a change.

But I want to try
to remember why I came,
to remember who I am,
and add my candle to the flame.
I want to slide
through the great unknown
on the breath of God
and always feel at home.

We're past the point of blaming.
We all want the same thing.
And I think we know the place to start.
But we can't legislate change.
If we want to make change;
it will take a change of heart.

A better world
is not a vision beyond reach -
external or remote.
But to see it,
first we have to be it.
Our living is our vote.

And I want to try
to remember why I came,
to remember who I am,
and add my candle to the flame.
I want to slide
through the great unknown
on the breath of God
and always feel at home.

A Tiny Gem

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A tiny gem on the cosmic hem
of a far flung sky...
Blue and green - crystalline,
like a tear in God's eye.

Lost in space, refusing grace.
How much more can we contract,
and forsake our source before the force
of longing pulls us back.

Planet of choice.
Playground of dreams.
Garden of gods and men.
Maybe it's not as hopeless as it seems.
Maybe this could be a garden again.

From a star-born seed
every species and breed
was planted on this planet that we share.
Regardless of our guise,
a Oneness underlies our differences;
for we breathe the same air.

Every single note of the song God wrote
adds to the harmony when played.
Every form and race ever born can be traced
to the One in whose image we were made.

Planet of choice.
Playground of dreams.
What will it take to see
the common thread behind the seams
of this brightly woven tapestry?

Seeing a need, our spirits agreed
to spiral down into this Earthly plane.
Once in the mire of debt and desire,
we forget who we are and why we came.
But it's time for the veils to lift.
It's time for consciousness to shift.
It's time for a wake-up call
for one and all,
for all is One.

So I send a prayer
floating through the air
that the flag of the universe be flown.
That we open up to grace,
quickening the pace
of ascension to dimensions not yet known.

Can't you feel the eyes
of our comrades in the skies
watching from beneath this starry dome.
The time is now.
We all know how.
And there is no place like home.