From "A" to "The"

As You fill every drop of space,

 So You fill every moment in time.

You're the ultimate of goodness.

 Where You are, there's goodness,

Only goodness!

 A gleaming core of goodness.

In every moment we are in,

 Right here is Your goodness.

If here, how can we find it?

 Maybe it's too beyond for us.

Yet, we can have some access.

 It's small, but yet so important.

It may seem like a tiny drop,

 Inhabiting an immense ocean.

Yet it isn't as tiny as it appears,

 As it touches the very goal of life.

Even if we can't find "the" good,

 In any moment we can do "a" good.

While it may not be "the" good,

 It certainly is validly "a" part of it;

More than simply being part of it,

 The "a" good might be our only role.

So even if we find not "the" good,

 By doing "a" good, "the" good finds us;

As "like finds like",

 In sweet cosmic alignment.

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The Positive Present

Many have told me,

"The positive will come".

As if the distant future,

Is a bank for all that's good.

But God is ultimate good!

Can His positive be delayed?

To say so, is like heresy,

 Implying a Godless void in time.

If God is present in time,

Then this moment must be good!

I pray for open eyes to see it,

So God's own joy can vibe my being.

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Dear Creator

I run away from You,

To You!

For how can one escape Infinity,

You, who contains all,

As the vast sea grasps a tender drop?

For how can one escape Your love,

The very life n' fabric of creation itself?

An attempt to escape You,

Is an attempt to escape my extended self.

For personal self trails off into cosmic self.

If I can't escape, why run?

Cause' I forget,

Before I remember.

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Relationships in Our Times

It's no secret to even the casual observer that relationships in our times are fraught with challenges. Marriages used to carry a greater expectation of stability. The stability of today's marriages seem to require more prayer and work.

There are many reasons offered for this change. To mention several of them in passing, they include greater sexual permissiveness, expectations of instant gratification, greater cultural mixing, new sets of pressures, social media, etc.

Truthfully, since the Creator is Good of good the core reason for any development is always gleamingly positive. Reasons of any other kind are, at best, external symptoms and not the inner core of truth.

So this development too needs to be gleamingly positive at it's core. Throughout history the Creator is preparing humanity for the arrival of the Messiah. The messianic era is a period of tremendous enlightenment. The prophetic verses describing this era speak of a time when the world will be filled with the spirit of God as the waters cover the sea bed or a time when the spirit of God will be poured out on all flesh. Jewish tradition also describes a whole new level of Torah which the Messiah will reveal; one expected to explain reality in a whole new way.

So commensurate with this upcoming enlightenment, people's minds and hearts need to become broader and more expansive. To accomplish this goal, cultures are mixing and a constant fresh influx of knowledge and awareness has become the new norm.

Even people who ostensibly belong to the same community and cultural group are finding that their minds are being moved to very different directions as a result of what they are exposed to and how their minds process new exposures. People are all over growing in different ways, rates and paces. As people's minds become more different, so too they become more different as well.

(Though the cosmic goal is to eventually lead all minds to the same expansive place, in the meanwhile the groping and growth required to get there creates a temporary state of global mind differentiation. It's a temporary differentiation for the sake of a much more expansive similarity. Think about how fetal cells differentiate in order to form a much larger unified body.)

Maybe, this differentiation isn't to the extent of making friendships difficult, but because marriage is much more sensitive than friendship, it does seem to make the real close quarter intimacy of marriage more difficult.

A solution might be to try to find a partner as similar as possible. However, also realize what is happening. "Similar" is a relative term, a spectrum. So it's not as likely that one can expect the similarity of yesteryear's more homogeneous societies.

Therefore, one should regard one's intimate partner as an opportunity to grow in perspective; as each partner brings something different and beautiful to the table. Bridge that gap! As a couple's minds blend, so will their identities.

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Find the Door

You might see your goal,

 Very clearly behind a window.

Transparency can lure you,

Casting an illusion of invisibility,

And the goal may be seen,

More clearly than the window.

But, the window is closed,

It opens a view, not a path.

Don't rashly rush towards,

You'll crash against a barrier,

Then be humiliated n' hurt,

Wishing you had patience.

Find your way to the door,

That's where your path lay.

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Hiding Behind Light

I find it interesting how humans use the gifts of nature to hide from nature, like behind clothes, in homes, urban centers, etc. This reminds of how the Creator uses His very light to hide His light.

Relativity

The Creator is Absolutely Infinite!

So nothing exists outside of Him.

Every being's perception is of Him.

The only question is, "How edited?"

For angels n' souls it is less edited.

This is why they only see paradise.

For biological beings it is more so.

This is why we only see our world.

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