Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Openings.
This week’s prose…an excerpt from Communion with God…
Now I come to tell you again that this is what is true:
Love is unconditional. Life is unending. God is without need. And you are a miracle. The miracle of God, made human.
This is what you have wanted to know all along.
It is what you have always known in your heart, and what your mind has denied. It is what your soul has whispered to you time and time again, only to be silenced by your body, and the bodies around you.
You have been asked to deny Me by the very religions that would invite you to know Me. For they have told you that you are not Me, and I am not you, and that to even think so is a sin.
We are not one, they say, but rather, the Creator and the created. Yet this refusal to accept and know yourself as one with Me is what has caused all of the pain and all of the sorrow of your life.
I invite you now to a meeting with the Creator.
You will find the Creator within.
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This week’s gift of poetry
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We truly Are
One Nation, Of God,
Indivisible,
because We Cannot Divide The One Heart
no matter what We may say
or do
to One another.
But let Me apologize to every God
for what We’ve done
in That name.
Let Me apologize to every People
for what We’ve each Believed,
as We took a Life.
Let Me apologize for every One
Who has forgotten
Oneness.
For Conquests.
For Slavery.
For War.
For Conversions,
and Missions.
For Rape
of Animals, Peoples, Planets.
Let Me apologize
for The Innocent
who
don’t even know
Their Guilt.
(‘Let Me Apologize’ – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)

For more of the work of this new American poet, go to www.mclairepoet.com.