by Lesley | Nov 17, 2018 | Beloved, Devotion, Relationships, Surrender, Uncategorized |
In this house everything is new. Nowhere do I see remnants of the past. The bookshelf that once held legal dramas and murder mysteries, now holds only love poems. And that stove, that brewed witches’ stews of boiled stink-eyes and simmering regrets, now,...
by Lesley | Oct 2, 2018 | courage, Creativity, Devotion, Surrender, Uncategorized |
Let the outer be and through Bhakti create inner harmony.
by Lesley | Sep 18, 2018 | Beloved, courage, Creativity, Uncategorized |
These flash floods tear through and erode one’s homeland. They wash away the topsoil and leave in their wake gullies, ditches and silt. The first impulse— divert the flow off the land, renunciate it, so it won’t cause so much trouble! But then the Divine...
by Lesley | Aug 15, 2018 | courage, Devotion, Surrender, Uncategorized |
Keep being me and choosing You even though it feels like the harder thing to do. In the end this choice of the Friend delivers the highest on the outer and within.
by Lesley | Aug 1, 2018 | Beloved, Sound, Surrender, Uncategorized |
The lizard limps down the middle of the dirt road. I stop the car, climb out, herd him to the side. He only perseveres back to the center, with a three-legged limp, right front leg held high. Heart screams, no, poor baby! He should be lifted on all fours...
by Lesley | Jun 27, 2018 | courage, love, Sound, Surrender, Uncategorized |
I used to think love blossomed in an edgy brilliance like those thistle flowers too prickly to touch and then surely eaten by night rabbits. But then the Beloved took my hand and flew me into a hurricane the cool blooming chaos of my dreams. All my worst...
