Feel The Glory

Feel The Glory by Nicola Rickards Karesh

Expecto Patronum! I hear Harry Potter’s voice to the other students, “Allow it to fill you up…” and I think of love filling every empty space, every portal and love just can’t be contained.  The inclination is to spill over and spread… to touch lives, so one day, we collectively, can feel the glory of our Creator.

I wonder if one day God just felt so full with love, that His energy literally burst wide open?! I imagine each of us as one of those magical sparkles of love.

We are meant to shine! We are meant to touch lives as only we can and in love, may we always express the fullness of God.

Nicola Rickards Karesh, copyright © 2012 – All rights reserved.

(Nicola is a writer and poet from Kingston, Jamaica.
Author of Morning Glory: Poetry And Reflections.)

(I chose Jenny Downing‘s ‘overgrown’ photo, because it feels so symbolic of something that just defies being confined to one space! Like God.  Like Love. Like us, if we allow ourselves to feel the Glory!)

Freedom Reigns

Freedom Reigns by Nicola Karesh

Respect will flow some day
Like a mighty train.
Filling every portal
Greeting each station
And making every stop.

Courage will become familiar
And shall rise on command
When the moment demands.

Love will be the clue
That your life is wide open
Like your most prized book.
It shall fill your heart
‘Til nothing but sweetness pours through.

Freedom will reign
For it is the King
Whose time has come.
Every colour, every race
All creeds, sexes,
Inclinations, denominations and aspirations
Will feel its triumphant spirit
Lifting us up.

Look around.
The promised land is here.
Look around.
We are that beloved community
That our forefathers and grandmamas
Dreamed about.

Look down.
Black, white, red, yellow and brown
Are intertwined
And locked in spectacular harmony.

The time has come
Brothers and sisters.
Freedom Reigns!

Nicola G. Karesh, copyright © 2012 – All rights reserved.

(I chose Jenny Downing’s ‘wrong note perhaps’ photo because I like the feeling of light-heartedness, joy, music and fun that it conveys!)

Capturing Goodness

Capturing Goodness by Nicola G. Karesh

I love when my heart feels like melted toffee! The warmest of rich browns, with a feeling like it could spread everywhere.

In this moment, I feel God and know that He is in every corner, crack and crevice.  He is the living, breathing Substance that permeates All.

Living and non-living marry and I sense the joyous coupling.

This is how I write. I feel what I feel and whether or not my intellect approves or can make sense out of it, I don’t care.  Something is here to be expressed and God seems to like me in that expressive role.  As I capture my feelings and accompanying thoughts, the liquid warmth continues to flow.  Its presence tells me that I serve my Creator and not my ego.

Energy is open and flowing and there is delightful movement!

Ego is more restrictive and choppier in motion.  The walls are narrower and more confining.

I like holding hands with Spirit.  Creation is playful and adventurous.  I feel expectant, like a child on Christmas Day.

Today is a good day.  I am happy to be alive to see and feel it.  To celebrate the goodness evident  in all things.

~*~

Nicola G. Karesh, copyright © 2012 – All rights reserved.
(photo ‘it’s always daisy time’ artfully captured by Jenny Downing) 

The gift of today

I woke up and I felt tired. Just two more minutes and I’ll get up! Another two and another…Dragging myself to the bathroom and it struck me…

Today is a gift. Do I want to be to worn out and too weary to appreciate it? Rather than replaying the tiredness in my brain, I want to focus on the joy of being alive. I open to the blessing of being given another opportunity to heal and to be healed. To love and to spread the glowing, effervescent energy of love.

Today, wherever you are, enjoy yourself!

Nicola G. Karesh, copyright © 2011 – All rights reserved.

(Here is a write-up from our local Transylvania Times newspaper about our beloved white squirrels!)

Reflection…

Reflection…

When I open to my Father, I am in heaven.
When I open to embrace Divine wisdom,
I am not lost.
I can feel my way with a sense of
trust,
goodness,
surety
and
light
beautifully reflecting everywhere.

Nicola G. Karesh, copyright © 2011 – All rights reserved.
(I chose ForestWander’s nature setting for the beautiful light that I see on my path.)