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The heart is surrounded
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The heart is surrounded

The search for a path through life
I begin immediately in the deepest connection here in the body.  

Every molecule aligned with the magnetism of the attraction of being.  

Every cell obedient to the gravity in the body 
and there is already here 
within this being which I call my own 
but is not 

there is a whole truth here  
which draws all of being everywhere into this location.  

The gravity helps to concentrate this force 
so that being begins to align,  
not with myself and my imagination,  
but with the cosmos and its laws.  

And already an opening appears 
throughout being in every location in the body of the earth 
so that the energy of the Lord’s goodness and mercy 
flows into being here.  

And I sense the way 
in which I am a vessel to receive this force.

And now I sense myself 
as a strong vessel, 
an urn made of copper and tin, 
of bronze and iron,

that takes on such a shape 
that it has the ability to receive 
and maintain the concentration of this energy,  

and that the bottom of the urn 
rests just below the heart in the abdomen  
just above the place where the soul touches God 

and that the upper part of the urn  
expands wider to include and to hold the heart 
as well as the energy that flows downward from above,
so that the heart is filled and penetrated with this energy.  

And that all of it is maintained here.  

More concentrated.  

Not leaking out of me,
but slowly forming a reservoir 
of truth and goodness 
that surrounds the heart to protect it from myself.  

I am weak.  
My vessel needs to be made strong.  

For truth and goodness need a place of security 
within which to be in every creature.  

And so this place within myself where love and good are received 
becomes a church in which I’m invited to worship 
and a fortress to protect me 
from the influences that would bring me down.  

And I let the strength of the Lord flow into this being 
and to help fill this container 
so that the heart is surrounded 
by truth and goodness. 

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