Language

Moving into Divine Unity is the highest prayer,

and it reaches down to your deepest needs. 

it brings your soul to life, 

it brings you more of life's fullness, 

and your life expands with grace and strength. 

This attitude of prayer

aligns most easily with your nature, 

and it requires the least effort to achieve,  

for it is simply what your soul already craves, 

and what it shall always crave 

until you truly understand 

that you are wrapped in Divine Unity: 

the goodness of God.     

 

Hazelnuts from Julian of Norwich 

Meditations on Divne Love , page 100

Ellyn Sanna     

  

photograph:  San Leandro, May 2019     

    

God speaks to us gently and lovingly.  Let us tune our hearts to hear that voice which speaks not the language of harsh criticism and judgement, but only of love.  This is a time of learning the language of the soul.  Let us practice such soul-speak.  Let us practice love.  Gratitude is a fine starting place as we learn to utter these new sounds rising gently from our depths. 

 

Love to you today, and always.     

Birthing Christ

I have been pondering this photograph for a few days now.  I am intrigued by what looks to be a small vessel and the center of the rose, and have been wondering what sort of writing should go along with it.  A Psalm? A poem?  Nothing has, until now, surfaced.  

Sister Julian (I really do not know how else to speak about Julian of Norwich; her writings are so intimate that I feel we are related) often referred to Jesus and/or Christ as Mother.  While I usually see a rose as a symbol of our linear journey (that is the journey from our physical birth to our physical death), this morning I realized that this particular rose speaks to me of birth, and how birth is a cycle, not just a one time event.  Yes, we are birthed a physical mother, but we are also birthed by Christ, and we give birth to Christ.  We are the inn at Bethlehem where Joseph and Mary wait so Christ can be born again.  This photograph also reminds me that Christ is continually pouring out the Christ Self for all.   There is no end to this cycle, only an enriching as (hopefully) our hearts become more open.    

The picture itself is small  because it is so closely cropped.  I hope you can experience the expanding largeness that I sense. And I pray the Mother Christ can be known to you today as you are brought forth into this world.     

   

Our human mothers 

bore us into a world of 

pain and death, 

but our True Mother, 

Jesus - All Love - 

bears us into joy 

and endless life 

(Blessed may She be!)

In this way, Mother Christ 

supports and holds us

in love within Herself 

(as a pregnant mother 

holds her unborn child).   

  

Hazlenuts from Julian of Norwich

Ellyn Sanna 

   

   

photograph:  San Leandro, May 2019