"Learning to Sign" - Pt I ... in the Name of the Father

(This prayer is part I of  praying the sign of the cross while linking the persons of the Trinity to the qualities of the archetypal energies.  In my imagination and configuration, God the Father is the magician or shaper)

In the name of the Father ...
The One who knows
Who is hidden,
the great Shaper ... creating out of beautiful chaos.
the One who heals the blind ...
for seeing is - in large measure - how we are healed.

To breathe and know who's breathing,

O Father, help me to see and to be and to breath,
fully, freely,

Unattached to life or death,
success or failure.

To be where nothing matters except being.

For an hour to rest ...
to put down my thinking,

Unattached to my own thoughts or judgments,
right or wrong,

For a few minutes maybe?
Imagine ... not having to solve anything.
To be in a place where nothing needs to be fixed,
nor managed, not thought about.

But it can all be.  As I can be.
Where right and wrong are real (maybe), but don't matter -
at least for a few minutes.

Where I stop categorizing and selecting parts of reality;
trying to change or exclude the ones I don't like -
preserving only the parts that suit me.

Where I let go of thinking,
of thoughts ...

Into the land of "no-need," Silence leads me.
I begin to feel more myself - though my 'I' is very much up in the air.

Yet, it seems odd ... to come into the Garden of Grace,
through the Father ... the Knower ...
and begin to surrender 'the knowing' ... the gift of thinking ... to let go of thoughts.

Still - it seems easy to do - natural --
this letting go ...
to where My Self is no longer connected to my cleverness and how right I am;
(or how wrong someone else is.)

To where I am freer than I knew was possible.

Could it be the Father ... the Shaper and Healer ... is more about letting go than knowing.

Is this my deeper Self ... the Father in me - with me ... letting go?

It's not even me that's doing the letting go.

Unbelievable, yet somehow true and plain to see.
My life is not really about me at all ...

So be it!  Amen!

... and in the name of the Son (to be continued)

Archetypal Prayer Postures

Archetypal Prayer Postures 

I do mind–body exercises upon waking each day, and I recommend these. -- The Rev. Ray Simpson

1.  The Warrior … Start by stretching in a warrior-like crouch, arms stretched forward above the bent knee and say, 'I arise today in the strength of God the Warrior, the Creator, Initiator and Overcomer.' Let these words become your motivation.

2. The Shaper (Mystic / Healer) ... Touch your eyes and say, 'I arise today in the flow of the Shaper.' Make moving, supple body shapes that stretch, as a shaper, your seeing, sensing and connectivity.

3. The Lover ... As you say, 'I arise in the name of the Lover, with all my senses', crouch down and allow God's divine sensing to spread through each part of your being. Pray, 'God bless each thing my hands touch, each thing I think, each word I speak, each soul I meet until I reach my home.'
4. The King ... As you say 'I arise in the centredness of the King', stand with feet astride and hands stretched out. Encompass all, stand firm before any looming troubles, allow the quiet authority of the King of kings to reside in his royal child.

(blog note: Ray shared these with the men of the circle in June 2013 when he visited)

Prayer to Bless

Brother / Sister ____________

     You are of us ... of me.
We are not separate.
I bless you ....
     Yet not I – But Christ in me -  
                      Blesses You.

       We give you permission to be who you are ...
         To Love and Create ...
          To Fall and to Fail ...
        And to rise again into the LOVE
          that you already are.  

< this blessing can be done person to person, or in the quiet of our heart;
    it's a great way to get into the flow, and begin to let people 'off the hook' >