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Rise Resilient!

Sandra Rae Hymel

Buried deep, entombed cocoon,

Christed chrysalis.

None too soon,

Whispered instruction,

The Word is now sent --

Rise, Beloved, Rise Resilient!

[Easter 1998]

Christ in you is risen this day!

Alleluia!

 

 

 

[painting accessed from www.picturesofjesus4you.com]

 

TO WILL OR NOT TO WILL

Sandra Rae Hymel

                                     Jesus, I wish to pray as you pray:

                                     “My will is Your will, O God, in this day."

                                     Yet, my cup is filled with fear of what God’s will might be.

                                     “God, is Your will for my good or my agony?

                                                   Do You will my emptiness, loneliness, my pain?

                                                   Do You will violence or will that I struggle in vain?

                                                   This cup, what is it, the suffering ahead?

                                                   Will the wine be sweet, or bitter instead?

                                                   

                                                   Perhaps the cup is this vessel that is me

                                                   Containing the Truth I alone can now see.

                                                   And Your will, O God, is that I follow through,

                                                   That I be who I am, to my own Self be true.

                                                 If this be Your will God, to this then I say:

                                                   Let my will be Your will, O God, in this day!”

 

 

 

                                                                                             

 

Coastal Beauty

LIGHT HOUSES

Sandra Rae Hymel

 

I am a lover of Light houses and

People who house Light

Light is vision of things beyond here

Light is understanding beyond the now

Light is Who you are ...

YOU ARE LIGHT!

 

 

 

LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

Sandra Rae Hymel

 

 

There is seductiveness in the dark room ...

                                                      The red glow of the dark light

                                                      Exposing the negative ...

                                                      Which in turn, reveals the positive,

                                                      The True Light, the Truth of who you are!  

 

 

 

 

WINTER CHANDELIER

Sandra Rae Hymel

 

 

                                                     Crystalled trees shivering in the silvered sky 

                                                     Adorned with glassed ornaments against foil 

                                                     Winter at it's best, shimmering in the light

                                                     And I --

                                                     Breathless at the beauty in the sight.

 

 

 

 

AUTUMNAL SPLENDOUR

Sandra Rae Hymel

 

 

                       Green is clean, clear, constant,

                       As Summer heat - pervasive;

                       Though shaded variance offers change,

                       A subtle touch - evasive.

 

                       White and black is cold and stark,

                       Long Winter nights, days wrapped in dark.

                       Buds pushing forth in Spring's new found life,

                       Offer us hope, even in strife.

 

                       But Autumnal splendour gives colours intense,

                       Leaves push their thrust of each cell's last sense.

                       God's brush caressing Life's passing on;

                       Glowing with Spirit, Eternal, not gone.

 

 

 

 

                                 

           

 

SOLAS! ... or ... O LIGHT!

[Solas means "light" in Irish Gaelic ...

written in honor of the Summer Solstice]

Sandra Rae Hymel

 

 

 

 

                                                Hail Thee, O Solas!

                                                Of candle, night light, star light - snow.

                                                Sun-light, moon-light, fire-light - glow!

                                

 

                                                Hail Thee, O Solas!

                                                Of day, lightning followed by thunder and following bugs,

                                                 Bulbs, lamps -- reflecting. ...

                                                Long days, short nights - light house --- Directing.

 

 

                                                Hail Thee, O Solas!

                                                Light of Lights ... Eternal Being

                                                Inward - Outward - Forever Seeing!

                                                Give us Thy sight, that we too might see

                                                The Light that Thou would have us Be!

 

 

 

 

YOU ARE GOD'S DANCE
Sandra Rae Hymel

God danced the day you were born!
In quiet pause, the world awaited,
Wondering what music you would bring
Expectant silence, impregnated with
Motion, movement, songs to sing!

God danced the day you were born!
Moving in total Oneness, rhythms of liveness --
Of joys and of strife --
Expressing as you,
God's dancing through life.

God danced the day you were born!
Holding the babe of you aloft in God's hands
Then -- gently releasing ...
With purpose, not chance --
God set you in motion
Now you are God's dance!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                               

 

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