do not run
from meaninglessness,
for the shadow of this silent void
is moving you to grow

surrender who and what
you think you are along with your hopes
and fears and fly toward that
nothingness

in seeking purpose
I found a shadow of nothingness
and so came to be;
this is all I ever
wanted or needed!

Adversity tests Soul’s resolve and faith in God, your lines brought this to mind, Sudhi;

No one who has little faith can be convinced in God,
and one who has faith needs little convincing…

Something for you, AHH;

Stephan Micus; “Black Mother”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQt879ThcRA

on the threshold of love,
the mortal self flickering like
the last glimmer of a dying lamp…

All human myths, stories and legends native to human cultures since the dawn of time, reflect the saga of the Journey of Soul, or the Hero’s Journey. This journey began in the Ocean of Love and Mercy, when Soul enjoyed the fruits of Heaven and lived a life of ease, until God the Father saw that It needed a different attitude in order to be of any use to IT, the Spiritual Hierarchy, and Its fellow Souls. Soul was sent to the dual universes, administered by Its chief appointee, the Lord of the Negative Worlds, under whose jurisdiction Soul would remain until It became aware of the spiritual laws of life and began to work consciously within the same.

The chief spiritual law is the Law of Love, (simply put, Soul must be willing to give of Itself without expectation of reward), out of which the rest of the laws falling into the categories of the Laws of Wisdom – the laws that speak of divine power and how it manifests in the universe,  the Laws of Freedom – practical laws that afford a smoother passage through everyday life, and the Laws of Charity – the laws that bring Soul a greater capacity to love – enable Soul to cease creating needless karma for Itself, and thus find Its way off the endless wheel of death and rebirth.

Key to Soul’s emancipation is “the Friend”, to use Rumi’s term, that Being which as is near to Soul “as Its own heartbeat”, and which Soul must engage in order to receive instructions insofar as the steps it needs to take in order to free Itself, avoid needless karma etc. No Soul is ever forgotten or alone in God’s Universes, and so “the Friend” appears in some form or another to every Soul, in all of God’s universes, and in whatever conditions and circumstances Soul may find Itself in. However, the Friend can only point the way, it remains for Soul to walk the spiritual path to God of Its own volition. And each Soul’s path will be unique. A further note on the Friend; the Friend is a manifestation of Divine Spirit, and may take a form or any number of forms that will be familiar to the individual, thus the Friend will appear in a different form to an Inuit of Alaska, a pygmy of Africa and/or a tribesman from the Amazon, and so on.

As mentioned, of prime importance to walking the spiritual path back home to God is Soul’s understanding and compliance with the spiritual laws of life such as the Law of Karma, the Law of Silence and the Law of Economy. Pertaining to the Law of Economy, Soul learns to align Its wishes, hopes and dreams with that of Divine Spirit. Thus it is said that the Universes are sustained by acts of personal sacrifice. This is how Soul’s growth is gauged, It begins to think not for Its own welfare but for the welfare of others first, and in doing so, finds that Its personal needs are taken care of. “Not my will but thine” in action.

One more point of interest, there is an irony here, for so often It happens that when Soul gains freedom from the wheel of death and rebirth and establishes Itself to one of the higher planes, It so often chooses to return to this world (or others like it), in order to help other Souls find their way back into the Heavenly Kingdom.

The Dreams of the Night

Early in the morning, before the day breaks,
The ocean it bids the shore goodbye;
The dreams of the night, washed up on the beach,
Are stranded like fish, waiting to die.

The fisherman hauls in his nets to see,
Wondering what the night’s catch will yield?
Gulls are a squawking while the fish they are threshing,
As the sun fills the sky with its crimson shield.

My love she weeps but doesn’t say why;
She said her heart I never can know.
All through the day and all through the night,
That is the place that no one may go!

Early in the morning, before the day breaks,
The ocean it bids the shore goodbye;
The dreams of the night, washed up on the beach
Stranded like fish, are waiting to die…

Neurosurgeon, Eben Alexander’s takeaway from his Near Death Experience, (one of them) “…You are deeply loved, cherished forever, you have nothing to fear, you are cared for…”

“Harvard Neurosurgeon Dies, shown why we reincarnate and EVIDENCE of Heaven”;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWRsALo7Hak

Autumn is the Springtime of the Soul

mired deep within,
your maliciousness and envy;
disarm that beast!

abandon your past;
sow the seeds of an upright
future here and now

autumn is the springtime
of the soul, and winter
is its native home

God bestows insight
in the hearts of those
who prove sincere

to see the Friend,
sew your eyes together and so
unsee the world