Today I am really focused on the power of creation. Spending time with a beloved and noticing what happens when the mind is focused on bitterness, fear, resentment. I have a powerful intention to keep my focus on the good, the holy, the beautiful. I see so clearly how where we put our attention creates our reality. I see so clearly that the secret of salvation is truly this, that I’m doing it to myself. I see so clearly that it is essential that I love all of it, the seeming dark as well as the light. In this now moment it’s all so clear.
We ARE the creators of the new earth period.
While seeking an image I came across this writing. I feel moved by the words of a Roman senator reaching across time to touch me now
“O God, whose reason rules the world,
who formed the starry heights above,
timeless, time’s chain far forth you hurled,
unmoved, gave all things power to move.
Prevailed on by no outsider cause
to fashion all reality;
ideas of love and mental laws
molded the noble world we see.
Your nature perfect beauty, thus
you made the world in tenderness
with sights and sounds to conjure us
to love the source of loveliness.
You named the primal elements
of earth and water, air and fire,
and balanced out their influence
that none might lower be or higher.
O Father, give me power to climb
and wash in fountains filled with light,
weighed down no more by things of time,
lit by your shining in the night.
The sight of you begins our day,
with you its evening we shall spend;
you carry us, and lead the way,
the journey, and the journey’s end.”
Boethius, c. 477 – 524 , Roman senator and philosopher
