Religiosity and Spirituality
Spirit
Awake, Aware, Alive
Awake, Aware, Alive
(Friend or Foe, Dead or Alive
by our Definitions,
thanks for being here
as I journey through Galaxies,
Ethereal, Astral, Physical,
through Destinations and Destinies
appearing solid and daunting
on a Ship of Questions to Remember
what it means To Be Truly Free.)
Are we truly Awake, Aware, Alive
or are our days merely a dream,
a haze, a maze of perceived illusions,
mistaken assumptions, erroneous conclusions,
distortions and confusions
about Life, about God, about Us?
Are we truly Awake, Aware, Alive?
From Childhood on, are we fed
and educated by our systems,
our families and societies
in what may by some be called
our Local Prejudices and Propagandas-
Cultural, Political, Religious-
as Blinders and Binders
through which we view
Life and God and Us?
Are we truly Awake, Aware, Alive?
Do we really know how Life works,
how Interconnected, how Interdependent
everything is everywhere
in The Larger View, The Grander Vision-
of this Universe, the Earth and even
The Great Beyond- Life Beyond Death
connecting All, including you and me?
Do we see how we’re part
of this multilayered Universe
of particles, waves and densities,
consciousness and frequencies,
even this Earth, this World
of waters and lands, elements and animals,
trees and plants and All That Is?
Do we understand even now
how our Well Being is Interconnected,
Interdependent, part of the All
and as we do to This, we do
to ourselves as well?
Are we truly Awake, Aware, Alive?
How do we Awaken to Oneness?
How do we Live in Awareness?
How do we value Life and being Alive?
How do we state, demonstrate,
to the All who we each are?
Who do we choose to be?
In large or small measure,
what do we contribute to Life
whether selfish or selfless?
Who do we think we are?
Do we see Life as a Name for God,
Life Itself and Freedom too?
Do we see Life in Us as Us,
a Process, a Force, an Energy
constantly moving, changing,
sustaining, recreating ever
in every Here and Now?
Do we see Life Itself Present,
Alive in Us, as Us, as All
even when some are not truly Sentient-
Awake, Aware, Alive?
I seek out New Definitions.
I leave Lesser Truths behind.
(So here I am enjoying the journey
on a ship of Questions flying
Beyond my past understandings
of Life As It Is into Mystery
and what it means To Be Truly Free.
Thanks One and All for joining me!)
January 2, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Faith
Faith
Faith is Hope with starlit wings.
Faith carries Courage above
stormy waters of events,
circumstances, forces
that push us hard and pull us down.
Faith lifts us high in troubled times
from Worldly cares to Heavenly realms
of understandings beautiful and sublime.
Here Higher Powers appear in glory
of awesome Wonders, enlightening,
communicating the power of words
to calm, with comforting assurance,
any fears in hearts and minds.
Here Peace is crowned and Joy is found
a Heavenly Treasure beyond all measure.
Here is where Love abounds
as Love unbounded,
not bound to limitations,
fully free in every way.
When Faith rests on things untrue,
on tangled webs of lies, held tight
in dark deceptions, conspiring agendas
linked and bound by chains of silence
holding down what’s truly true
then Faith falls through such ground
of decayed, unsound foundations,
Faith’s Trust is broken, illusions shattered,
though Faith may yet still cling to these.
Faith deceived has no Freedom,
disempowers us through Fear,
creates confusions, distorts perceptions,
warps world views, spins false news,
enslaves and carries us away
from Love as God’s True Light
to guide our lives in many ways.
Faith corrupted steals and slanders,
torments, tortures, exiles, kills,
becomes the Opposite to Love
while justifying Deadly Games
of Destruction in God’s Names.
May our Faith be ever free
to grow and change, evolve,
to lift us ever higher
to higher truths and wisdoms,
to help us see ever more clearly
Life, our lives, our planet World
and what is truly true.
December 7, 2022- Shelley Audrey Wilson-
Victoria BC
A Young Species
We are a young Species.
Like young Children,
we grow in greater Awareness
of other Beings, other Humans
and strange-looking Creatures
sentient or not,
evolving fast or slow,
loving, friendly,
fearful, hostile,
appearing strange in many ways.
Like young Children,
we grow in greater Awareness
of where we live,
of Other Rooms and Spaces
Beyond the first we knew.
Some of us reach out
to touch the heavens,
eager to explore and know
The Wonders waiting Beyond
Closed Doors and Curtained Windows,
Beyond what we now see.
Some of us go deep within us
to know where our life began,
to know again The Womb of Heaven,
know again The Oneness
and The Wonder of It All.
Like young Children,
we grow in greater Awareness,
we Make Believe and Make It So
creating and co-creating
a myriad Dreams as Realities
Playing Out as we grow.
Beings of Older Ages, Other Places, watch
and sometimes even guide us
as we Play, Evolve and Grow.
December 4, 2022- Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Tolerance and Acceptance
Tolerance and Acceptance
This may be
your only birth
on this little planet
we call Earth.
Perhaps you
were never born here
in this wondrous World
ever once before
but I have
and will again
even many times more.
Among the stars
I’ve also lived
in other strange forms
knowing Peace and Wars.
You may see
this vast Universe
as far outside of you
but I can clearly see
it is within us too.
You may think
we were born in sin
but I do see
God’s holy Presence
the Life of our life,
as ever and always within.
You can’t prove
and I can’t prove
Beliefs we hold
from things we’re told
or of our own
Remembrances and
Perceptions.
May we leash
our loyal dogmas
and choose a wiser way,
growing day by day
in Tolerance and
Acceptance.
November 30, 2022
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
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