Atumn Journey

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It is autumn
It is autumn indeed
Summer with its warmth and joyful tone
Over for this time
The forest dresses herself in new colors
Leaves and pine needles change into orange and red
Everything testifies of life in another faze
It is orange and red, but it is not dead
The autumn first feels like a change of clothes
The outer changes color and contour
Later it leads you deeper
The fall is a time for
Fading
Forethought
Flux
Formation
Again, everything is on a journey

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Høstvandring

Det er høst
Det er sannelig høst
Sommeren med sin varme og glade klang
Over for denne gang
Skogen klær seg i nye farger
Løv og barnåler skifter også over til oransje og rødt
Alt vitner om liv i en annen fase
Det er oransje og rødt, men ikke dødt
Høsten er først som et klesskifte
Det ytre skifte farge og kontur
Senere leder høsten deg dypere
Høsten blir en tid for
Foreldelse
Forberedelse
Forandring
Forvandling
Alt er igjen på vandring

You don’t owe me

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When I have lost myself
in helping others
I may start thinking you owe me your thanks and your love

But the truth is this:
You don’t owe me anything
I just need to ground myself
In the everlasting Love of the Divine

I must sit down
Take a breath
Start over out of silence
From then on I can fly…just a little slower

 

Union Still

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Throughout my life
of loneliness and pain
I have often longed and prayed for
a union with God
to gain

This longing for union is
still very deep and strong
Sometimes overshadowed by
the action of life
yet never gone

Union still is my heart’s desire
This I strive for
in my great search
Yet maybe now I have found
a joy in life
so I feel I am living less on the edge
of a knife

Forever I am still longing
Both in silence and in sound
for this Greatest Love to abound
All the way until complete union
where all is found

Burning Face

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I have a burning face now
It is almost painful
Also distressing
What is this burning
in my face

My face is burning
I sense it comes from
a yearning
Is this yearning mine or
is it Divine

I remember the story
of the Burning Bush
Moses stood on Holy Ground
He had to take off his shoes to
thread gently on the soil

What is this burning
I have a Burning Bush
of life in my inner being
Is it a Holy Fire
I do need to admire

It is so easy to mix
this Fire with desire
Too quickly I try to satisfy
this hunger within
Yet for something deeper I must wait

The waiting is agonizing
It almost stretches my bones
I think something is ready
to be bye-gones
A New River

May it come
May it flow
May it be free

Open My Valves

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Going through some things in the storage
from long gone days
Emotions were stirring, tears filled my eyes
That was when I realized

I am just like this beautiful horn I used to play
It was called euphonium
And had a sound of wonder
I must say

After some time of playing
the horn filled up with spit
I had to open all the valves and blow out
the waste stuck in it

Then the horn was ready to be played
Again, beautiful music could be made
The sound was now so strong and so clear
Some people even thought it was rare

Going through some old things that day
Made me realize I am also this way
I need to open my valves to feel 
and clear out my grief

When I have remembered the joy and
all tears have been cried
I have both embraced my past and
opened myself fully for the ever deeper
love in life

Letter of Pain

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I am writing down this letter of pain
Asking myself, -what is there to gain
My God, my God I am feeling alone and lost
The cup is large and it is of great cost

Some people say, -Jesus took your pain
On the cross the sin of the world was lain
Yet, to me this is so very real
This terrible agony I now feel

Was it not God that gave me this gift to feel
Maybe so that I through that could heal
Is Christ on the cross there with me
Sharing the experience of this so terribly

As I am writing this letter of pain
And in the dark it is too dark to see
Another thought crosses my mind:
The cross I bear is part of Thine

On The Mountain / På fjellet

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On the Mountain

Once,
you called me and set me
on the top of the mountain
There I saw
the Indescribable Light
In this Light my soul would linger
But it was not the time

-Now, dear child, you must learn to walk
Step down from the mountain you must
Soon you will neither feel or see
There will be darkness
On the road to the Secret Place

På fjellet

En gang,
du kalte meg opp
på den høyeste tinde
Der fikk jeg se det
Ubeskrivelige lys
I det Lyset ville min sjel forbli
Men det var ikke dens tid

-Nå, kjære barn, må du lære å gå
Stige ned fra fjellet du må
Intet vil du snart føle eller se
Det vil bli mørkt
På veien til det Hemmelige sted