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With You

November 10, 2014 By Juanita Ryan 2 Comments

You are here, now, asking me to remain with you. But my mind travels far, revisiting, inventing, regretting, resenting, worrying, controlling, without you. Help me return to this moment where you live with me. Teach me to anchor myself to you. May I awaken to morning’s new light and to you. May I cherish the gift of water refreshing my face and you. May I be … [Read more...] about With You

Still You Stay

November 3, 2014 By Juanita Ryan Leave a Comment

You stay with me even when I do not stay, even when I turn away, walk away from myself. You stay with me, though left for dead, abandoned. You stay, weeping beside my self imposed tomb, call out my name, awaken me from death to life with you. You stay with me even when I turn away, walk away from others, even when I close my eyes, my heart, to their want, their … [Read more...] about Still You Stay

You Stay

October 27, 2014 By Juanita Ryan Leave a Comment

“You stayed with me. You stayed with me.” I turn this truth over quietly, letting it calm me, like a cool, smooth worry stone in my hand. You stayed with me when the person I needed most turned away, walked away, left. You stayed. Every time. You stayed. This reality, a gift you spoke into my heart’s darkness, grows more solid— becoming an intimate stone of comfort— as I … [Read more...] about You Stay

Heaven at My Door

October 20, 2014 By Juanita Ryan Leave a Comment

I hear you tapping gently, but oh, so persistently. Your morse code of desire moves in waves from the door to the inner chambers of my being. It seems you are always there, vulnerably offering your self, your love, your goodness. Heaven is standing at my door, seeking entrance and I hesitate. Love is offering me everything and I question my deserving. Some … [Read more...] about Heaven at My Door

Howling

October 13, 2014 By Juanita Ryan 1 Comment

We howled happiness sitting together in the gentle morning light. It was no joke, only delicious delight in each other and living gratitude for so much grace, that sent us silly. Later, when I was still and listening, you took me back to those shared moments of holy howling to let me look again into this loved one’s eyes, and hear anew our glad sounds. “You caught a … [Read more...] about Howling

True Love

October 6, 2014 By Juanita Ryan 1 Comment

You call me a name unimagined, raising me up from the place I have fallen. “My beautiful one, rise,” you say, as you lift me with graceful motion into your embrace. “The rains have stopped. The winter is over. The season of singing has begun. Come, let me show you what winter’s deaths have birthed.” You, True Love, come to us all in this way, naming our beauty, reaching to … [Read more...] about True Love

Morning Prayer

September 29, 2014 By Juanita Ryan Leave a Comment

I give my mind, my heart, my body, my spirit, my day, my life, to you. For all I am and all I have is from you. All are gifts, that I return in gratitude and love to you. To you, Self-giving God, who gives all you are to me and to us all. To you, whose life and love were poured out to us in Christ. To you who comes to us, ever so intimately as Spirit, to dwell with us, in … [Read more...] about Morning Prayer

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