Goodbye for now
beautiful midsummer's flower.
You lived and blossomed
in a season's sun,
gave joy and love,
gave new seed birth,
all before frost's
too-quick touch
could blight your radiance.

Good abides with you
these short-sunned seasons,
until light's quickening touch
raises you to bloom anew.

Good abides with you.
Goodbye....Adieu....
To God, to rest
we carry you
with us, and us to you.

Bruce Godden,
Copyright, 2008

Christine Wenzl, nee Miller, was a beautiful
and purely spirited woman
who passed to Pure Spirit
on February 7, 2008, at age 43.
She left behind her beautiful son, Stephan,
a family, and many friends who loved her dearly.

Rumi was right.  I need more courage....

Who suffers your torments?
Who weeps for you?
Who abides with you
always awaiting your return?

Who calls to you?
Who reaches out?
Who is ever there with you
when you despair?

Who comforts you?
Who thinks of you?
Who remembers you
when you forget?

Who witnesses your strengths?
Who strengthens you?
Who stays one hour with you
when others turn away?

Who is it that you turn to?
Who do you lean on?
Who will support and hold you
when you fear collapse?

Who is it that you love?
Who loves you?
Who fully knows your joy
and the beauties you perceive?

Each life is a forgetting of one's self
and a remembering of your Beloved Self.
Each forgetting is a return
of this Indwelling Beloved to Wholeness.
It is You.  And you are never forsaken....

As Earth to Sun
and Sun to Milky Way,
so galaxies in clusters
spin outward from their origin,
from that Primordial Word
of which all heavenly strings are spun.
And from these filaments
and matted skeins of clusters
even planes of cosmic light shine forth,
uniform and translucent,
which are the Mnd and Thoughts of G_d.
In this Light we live and move

And when the Sun shines
full upon the Earth,
to light both eyes and consciousness,
we clearly see the Power of G_d
and feel Its touch.
With the passage of Sun cross heavens
the illusion of Time is born
to minds that know only now in part.
But when the Sun's light sets
to reveal the full panapoly
of slowly wheeling stellar arms
that sweep across night's sky,
our minds perceive the Depth of G_d
and sense the Eternal

I practiced as a lawyer before being being restored to some degree of sanity.  The wisest thing I heard in law school was when an aged professor, who seemed right out of Paper Chase, declared, "You know the truth because it has the 'ring of truth' to it."  By that, I believe he meant that you cannot definitively discern what is true with your reasoning and analytical processes - although these can be beneficial in recognizing falsehoods - but must discern truth with your deeper, intuitive consciousness.