Blessed Pentecost, 2023

 SEEDS

Thursday, May 25, 2023
10:01 AM

(By: Karla Wagener)

The seeds of my soul
We're engendered long ago,
Long before my birth
Goes back to who can know.

There is an eager push
That runs a race in a rush
To fulfill some inexplicable goal
To an unspoken plan

That is nestled in my interior
And reaches out to you
So as to be fulfilled

And from some tiny, cold stone
Form into promised bliss
To manifest in growth!

ONLY FOOLS RUSH IN!

 LIKE A RIVER FLOWS

(Saturday, May 6, 2023
12:16 PM By: Karla Wagener)

Like a hummingbird flittering.
Like a newborn puppy whimpers.
Like a full moon over a running river.
Or a lonely soul expectantly shivers.

In harmony, in given time,
The heart beats a fully felt rhyme.
The simple faith of others
Makes ours grow like innocent lovers.

And we realize things can be better.
Perfect words built upon each letter.
In the silence that goes beyond
Resolving issues as the origins respond...

Like a song never heard enough
Like wood formed into a creation on a lathe
We thrive on each other's great faith!

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

 AWESOME REAWAKENING

Not too many days ago I was riding my bike after my pilates class at my 70 years of age! I came across some traffic that was unexpected. Just before that I had been (shall we say praying in my manner) thinking if I should fall and could I be protected in precarious situations in life, etc.

I attempted to slow down and put on the brakes and made a half circle feeling like I was in midair. "Surely, I will fall", I thought "and at my age it could be disasterous". Somehow I managed to make another half circle again feeling myself in the air and still closer to the pavement. Somehow (it was like some inexplicable force manipulated the handle bars) and the bike made another half circle that avoided the cars so that I could continue on my way as if nothing had happened. I shouted out, "casi" (almost) to a shocked onlooker who seemed to be prepared to pick me up off the street if I fell.

This detail has impacted my way of thinking and has helped me feel willing to place myself with more confidence into my actions with less fear while at the same time helping me to consider those actions more profoundly. And, of course, made me realize how important it is to do positive actions and be humble!

In the 70s and 80s, my youngest brother (of us 10 siblings) used to always say "awesome" for any situation. All of creation is so awesome and contemplating it always is beneficial for us.

Sometimes the smallest detail can have the greatest effect and be so incredibly awesome! I feel that I have been reawakened once again (without being hurt in the process) to life's miraculous capabilities. We are too often awakened only by experiences that shock us.

Later, after a few days I saw an interview on CNN with the famous cellist, Yo Yo Ma who has been giving concerts in Mammoth cave in Kentucky (which is the biggest cave in the world) and who is a spiritual guide. He was saying that humanity needs to first decide what our purpose is. This opened a way of thinking to me. We have a resurging purpose to return to the sources of our forbears and roots and to also discover and share the wonders and marvels of creation. We have a need to gather together.

Our purpose is to unravel the mysteries around us and to produce for the common good like a bee hive or an ant social system. Or flocks of a same feather.

Can there be a greater purpose than sharing and doing for others? I think not! Try it! Just try it out! And let that inexplicable force somehow help you, lift you, and even save you from a tragic fall!
 

Sunrise, sunsets!

LEGENDARY GREEN FLASH

Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 2:54 am

(By: Karla Wagener)

It's not that I'm waking up
At this hopeless hour
To escape from haunting dreams.
It may seem so, but no,
I am anticipating the sunrise
Which I rarely get to see
With all it's awesome colors,
And, of course, green!

We need to see the sunrise more often,
Visualizing in it greens,
So as to rebuild hope
And give comfort,
Helping us to understand our dreams.

Or contemplate the multitudes
Of shades of green 
Along the river's banks
Yellow green, blue green, dark, light, shimmering green, green almost white.

Surely the union of
Molecules that replicate into life
From cold minerals
Is acquired only with a color
A color of green
Time to be thusly seen
Built from hope.
 

This will surely give our chemist friends something to wonder about!

 PRIME TIME

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
2:31 PM

(By: Karla Wagener for the Cuomo brothers, especially Chris! Haha!)

Not many know this,
And I have learned through experience
That life is conceived in thoughts
In the mind
And much much later in the uterus.

Thought is such a powerful thing,
Yes, it is a tiny fraction of a molecule.
Our thoughts produce and so
It is prime time
To follow the golden rule.

Time to go to work guys!

SANDPAPER

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
5:25 AM

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,” Henry David Thoreau wrote, “but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”

By: Karla Wagener)

No one perceived the first drops
Only the cows and dogs,

a few wild deer
Could discern what was to appear.

No one felt the chasm
Or saw it grow
History made it happen
Beyond the will of the masses
An invisible cancer of violence,
Poisons of selfishness and hate.

Humidity began to form
I have felt it myself
I know that it is there
I feel it's presence here
The drops that no one knows about

Are gently touching my mind
So I am here to advise you all
To prepare for
The Spirit's transformations.

My soul cries,
Fearing you will not hear.
Yet knowing somehow
The workings shall be well done!

Translated poem for greater understanding!

(PASCHA IN SPANISH)

PASCHA
lunes, 10 de abril de 2023 4:19 a. m.

(Por: Karla Wagener)

        

       "Hay un tiempo senalado para todo" 

Presagio de los sueños... 

Ahí está, una abertura que refleja 

Una esperada comienzo

a todos nuestros expectativas...
De modo que ahora 

Las aspiraciones anhelantes y suplicantes

Pueden culminar en actuaciones 

De magnitud y trascendencia 

Mientras todavía estamos vivos 

y respirando 

En esta tierra bendita.

Pues ya estamos en Pascua 

y El estreno esta claro. 

Te lo acerco para que puedas ver y tocar 

El brillo del recién formada salvacion.

De minerales fríos llega el momento preciso 

Cuando las moléculas sin vida se replican 

produciendo tiempo y vida,
Abriendonos a los tesoros del espíritu.