(audio poetry 3:43) let it go
by rachel
The full written text appears here.
Categories: audio, body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality • Tags: awakening, surrender, wisdom
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“you just don’t know the stories these poems will tell…”
by rachel
Here’s our latest update, from Julie Mitchell in central California, USA. “Well, I parted with the first poem… yes, I’ve decided to tuck them both. I’m not sure why I chose the cemetery and its little church. It just felt right to place You are the Prayer there. “It was a beautiful day today. I parked in front of the church and went in. I sat there for a few minutes thinking about what it might mean to someone […]
Categories: inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video, Words Divinely Wrought • Tags: faith, new paradigm, surrender
in amsterdam’s vondelpark, a poetic prayer stars in a video, climbs a tree and takes a swim
by rachel
The Words Divinely Wrought adventure continues in Amsterdam, where Simonetta went above and beyond — planting You Are The Prayer in the crook of a voluptuous willow tree, returning later to find the poem drifting in a nearby pond, and finally earthing it at the base of the tree. “I ventured in Vondelpark the other day as soon as the sun decided to come back and offer us the illusion of yet another summer day,” writes Simonetta. “…I decided to […]
Categories: inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, Words Divinely Wrought, writing & creativity • Tags: faith, new paradigm, surrender, unity
let it go: now the barren gives way to the blossom (classic)
by rachel
It was only six months ago that I first posted this poem, albeit with a different Matisse painting (“Open Window, Collioure” 1905). Today, the words carry a slightly different resonance, and so a new image invited itself onto the page. now the barren gives way to the blossom if you but untie the limp strings of your torn and tender heart and let it go the mountainous terrain of the past heaves and crumbles and in its stead soft valleys […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, letting go, mysticism, surrender
i suppose we are here for each other
by rachel
I suppose I am here for you, to hold your hand in mine and in the other, an outstretched lantern penetrates a narrow causeway And so gingerly together we take each step toes probing the darkness anticipating a slipslide of all we have believed is solid all that we believe will lift us out of the muck and into the miraculous all that we believe. I suppose you are here for me, to fill the bellows of my heart to […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, love, surrender, wisdom
your body is not a storehouse for pain and suffering
by rachel
if you are seeking to be told which way to go, you are not truly seeking if your hanging on the hook is punctuated by a grasping need for ironclad elucidation, you have not yet surrendered your ego in service of the greater cause when you insist that your path resemble that of another, that your very evolution keep pace with your plans and appointments, that each and every pebble rapidly align itself in geometric symmetry, you will find yourself […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, surrender, wisdom
let yourself be led
by rachel
let yourself be led, not as sheep to the slaughter nor guided by a feeble hand gnarled by lifetimes grabbed and grasping the blank canvas possesses a multitude of expressions, and when you unloose seduction’s illusion of control, divest yourself of the implacable quest for understanding, revelation will shower you with a gentle, knowing mist. reason’s antediluvian yoke shoulders you unfailingly along a highway marked by fevered rutting, memory’s danse macabre holds you hamstrung in its spell, your impassioned struggle […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, mysticism, surrender
relax: evolution continues with or without you (classic)
by rachel
This post appeared last year around this time, with a different image. Perhaps it will say something new to you – or echo something familiar in a surprising new way. please take a number and commit to remaining in line until service is rendered allow yourself simply to wait maintain a measured distance from the impatience that roils beside and beneath you, and know that your moment hangs imminent with arrival please relax every reflex that whiffs desperation unclench your […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, surrender
feeling it’s not easy being you? “superman” by five for fighting (video 3:38)
by rachel
At first, I thought this one was “for the boys” — until I realized it’s for all of us who are traversing the landscape that embraces the valley sweep between being “ordinary humans” and the untrammeled universe of becoming expanded, infinite beings of higher spiritual consciousness. We are Creator Gods, we are wayshowers, we embody Divinity and the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine in every cell. Every step we take, every breath we make, is an act of heroism. […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: ascension, awakening, surrender
a prayer is just another way of saying yes (redux)
by rachel
a prayer is just another way of saying “yes” to beneficial outcomes to the mist of a dew-filled morning to the rise of the question and the answer deferred to so-called detours designed to keep you on your way. a prayer is a vision upheld – no more, no less a promise that spring will arrive on the heels of darkness deep aches will come to overflow with a most succulent satisfaction or perhaps the yearning never will pass, merely […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, prayer, surrender
this there has never been
by rachel
Freshly returned from a brief yet extraordinarily potent getaway pilgrimage, I am awash and alive with the reclamation of my soulspirit. This poetry first appeared here in June 2010: I rediscovered it as I am designing a new way to share my poetic wisdom “off the internet and off the interstate.” there has never been a time such as this – the sword of damocles hangs heavy, horsehair thread untwisting on itself sweat pours from the brows of the powerful […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, surrender, wisdom
the braille of a man’s heart is not so different from my own
by rachel
I wrote “How the Men Want to Fly!” more than a decade ago, and every so often it asks to come into the light of day — to honor the men who struggle mightily with the notion of what it means to be strong and manly and vulnerable and free. This one’s for you, guys, as well as for your own Inner Divine Feminine and the Inner Divine Masculine that lives within every female body. Sorry, I lost track of […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, men, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: divine feminine, divine masculine, divine union, masculine, surrender
a prayer is the beat of a heart that sings through the rain
by rachel
a prayer is just another way of saying yes to beneficial outcomes to the mist of a dew-filled morning to the rise of the question and the answer deferred to so-called detours designed to keep you on your way a prayer is a vision upheld – no more, no less a promise that spring will arrive on the heels of darkness deep aches will come to overflow with a most succulent satisfaction or perhaps the yearning never will pass merely […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, poetry, spirituality • Tags: higher consciousness, prayer, surrender
the bejeweled bedrock of the psyche: all i ask is this
by rachel
If you haven’t yet noticed, I’m all about a multidimensional, multifaceted approach to existence. That means I willingly (or not-so-willingly) embrace the (so-called) good, the (perceived) bad, the sacred, the sublime, and the ridiculous. In two healing sessions this week, I hit bedrock — core, foundational, cellular stuff that continues to reveal a panoramic, 3D, 5D, 9D view of my soul’s journey. The only way “out” is “through,” and I am embracing every delicious, painful, wretched, exhausting step of the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: dark night of the soul, faith, soul, surrender
ode to branson, colorado: bring your dream
by rachel
I haven’t said all that much about my new rural community down by the Colorado/New Mexico border, but here’s some wordage that just came through. Once you get excrutiatingly clear about your dream and release just about everything blocking your attainment of it, you may find yourself in surprising and unexpected locations. When you are called, you simply go. It matters little whether anything makes sense, is practical or convenient. Home is where you find it; paradise is yours to create. This is […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, southeastern colorado, transformation • Tags: Branson Colorado, change, Colorado, community, dreams, Las Animas County, life, rural life, small town, surrender
what it is, what it’s not
by rachel
It’s not the bat – – it’s the one who wields it Not the ball but the one who fields it, Not the swing, it’s the yearning within It’s not the score – – it’s the spirit that wins It’s the passion, the glory, that design the form The ardor unchained that subdues the storm, The plan is nothing without those who create Who resist the temptation to arrive too late Who time after time return to the start Forging […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation, writing & creativity • Tags: awakening, consciousness, life, surrender
can you remain awestruck during tough times?
by rachel
These words are from a book on Faith currently under development by a publisher who shall remain nameless. The NASA image of the sun is not a Summer Solstice photo-but it sure gets me in the mood! Be Awestruck Although it isn’t always easy, the toughest times require you to believe in the greatest, grandest possibilities. Can you allow yourself to be brought to your knees by miracles and finely orchestrated “coincidences” that defy rational thought? Can you soften your […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, prose poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, body mind & spirit, consciousness, faith, inspiration, life, NASA photo, personal growth, prose poetry, spirituality, sun, surrender, transformation
enjoy billy joel while i’m warming up in the greenroom: and so it goes (video)
by rachel
Saints be praised! I can feel the stirrings of a new cycle of blogging, poetry, and other shared pursuits. While I’m shaking off the residual cobwebs, enjoy this poignant classic by Billy Joel. These poetic words and his sensitive performance seem to characterize where many of us are these days: Letting go of the old (whether by choice or circumstance) and opening our tender hearts to new ways of being, feeling, and engaging with others. Enjoy! Both tears and smiles […]
Categories: inspiration, love, transformation, video • Tags: And So It Goes, Billy Joel, change, healing, inspiration, life, love, opening heart, surrender, transformation, video, wisdom
keep moving: turn the knob and open the door
by rachel
This is what I lay at your feet: The elevation of your sin above my joy Your immutable commitment to your own swirling Charybdis Your lust to live a life predicated on lies And an insatiable appetite to manipulate Every tender expression into a gamble against unbeatable odds. This is what I own: Enchanted by sugarspunfine words and misguided supplication I willingly unshrouded, Exposed crystalline layers to malificent tundra Shook the heavens in fervent self-immolation Stripped bare to bone, I […]
Categories: inspiration, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, body mind & spirit, Charybdis, consciousness, Earth Art, inspiration, intelligent inspiration, NASA, NASA Satellite Photo, poetry, satellite photos earth, soul journey, spiritual poetry, spirituality, surrender, The Optimist, transformation, transformative poetry, Whirlpool Photo
hallelujah: k d lang says it so much better than I ever could (music/video)
by rachel
Historically, I’ve been partial to Jeff Buckley’s cover of this Leonard Cohen song — which is based on the Biblical story of (King) David and Bathsheba and has been analyzed and interpreted for years. Yet today, in this moment, at this juncture in the road, no other rendition carries the power, the majesty, and the achingly delicious surrender that K.D. Lang summons through her body and voice in this commanding-yet-humble, 2005 live performance in Winnipeg. This slays me in the […]
Categories: inspiration, love, spirituality, video • Tags: David & Bathsheba, God, Hallelujah, inspiration, Juno Awards performance, kd lang, Leonard Cohen, life, love, spirituality, surrender, video
5 minutes of rumi, safri duo, and deep soul peace (video)
by rachel
Do you have five minutes to invest in the deep nourishment of your soul? This video, uploaded by rahmama2, blends magnificent poetry by Jelaluddin Rumi (as translated by Coleman Barks) with uplifting music and stunning photographic images. (Though I cringe, even I can momentarily overlook the typo confusing “you’re” with “your.”) Note that we are nearly at the Full Moon, making the text even more potent and poignant for us all. If you are as taken as I am by […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: awakening, body mind & spirit, consciousness, divine union, ecstatic union, higher consciousness, inspiration, Islamic Arts, Islamic poetry, love, poetry, Rumi, Rumi poetry, Safri Duo, Sufi, Sufism, surrender, transformation, video
answering the call (in five acts)
by rachel
Answering The Call (In Five Acts) I It’s not that God didn’t call me I just wasn’t able to answer! Time and circumstance gnawed through the wires The receiver slipped from its cradle, all circuits busy, And when I opened my mouth to speak Nothing poured forth from recalcitrant lips, Carried off in an instant by an elusive, provocative wind. II It’s not that I couldn’t engage my senses I saw the garden rise up just beyond the cobbled wall! […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, body mind & spirit, call, consciousness, God, higher consciousness, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, purpose, spirituality, surrender, transformation, vocation
inspiring much? jennifer hudson sings ‘i am changing’
by rachel
I just can’t get enough of these incredible divas!! Huge energy is moving today, inviting you to let go of the old and embrace new ways of being, living, and loving. If you’re still grasping, you might feel as though you’re stuck, mired in muck up to your ears, with no light at the end of the tunnel. Drink up some of this woman’s energy, her fire and her passion. You’ll get to the other side if you surrender your […]
Categories: inspiration, personal growth, transformation, video • Tags: awakening, David Letterman Show, Dreamgirls, empowerment, I Am Changing, inspiration, Jennifer Hudson, life, surrender, transformation, video
making love to god: part six
by rachel
This is the sixth in a series from Making Love To God, my memoir of Divine Union and contemporary spiritual relationship. The series began on July 29, 2008, with the Introduction and Chapter One, and will continue through completion. You may resonate with the material more powerfully if you follow it in order; all posts are categorized in the Making Love To God category in the sidebar to your right. May we all find the courage to strip away anything […]
Categories: inspiration, love, making love to god, spirituality, transformation, uncategorized • Tags: awakening, dark night of the soul, divine union, ecstatic union, God, love, mystic, mysticism, opening heart, spiritual relationship, spirituality, surrender, transformation
making love to god: part five
by rachel
This is the fifth in a series from Making Love To God, my memoir of Divine Union and contemporary spiritual relationship. The series began on July 29, 2008, with the Introduction and Chapter One, and will continue through completion. You may resonate with the material more powerfully if you follow it in order; all posts are categorized in the Making Love To God category in the sidebar to your right. May we all find the courage to strip away anything […]
Categories: inspiration, love, making love to god, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, divine union, ecstatic union, God, love, mystic, mysticism, opening heart, spiritual relationship, spirituality, surrender, transformation
let this be the day
by rachel
Let this be the day The day of silent wisdom flowing through cupped hands Spilling over the battlements in enquenchment Trickling into your parched and blistered heart And bringing forth the tender blossomings hid thereunder Let this be the day you softly douse the final ember Cool the incessant fire that once threatened to leap over hedged edges Sought to swallow every morsel in its hot and baited breath Lick delicately crafted intention into submission And singe spirit’s embryonic beginnings […]
Categories: inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: allow, inspiration, life, personal growth, poetry, prayer, spirituality, surrender, transformation
are you ready to be whole now? take this quiz!
by rachel
1. Are you ready to disconnect from anything and everything that devalues, devitalizes, or diminishes your capacity to live the full-spectrum life you were born to live – including people, places, pets, possessions, professions, and old patterns? Are you ready to consider that your departure may serve the expanding lives of those vibrational organisms as well? 2. Are you ready to forget much of what you’ve read, even more of what you’ve been taught, and nearly all that you’ve been […]
Categories: inspiration, spirituality, transformation • Tags: forgive, full-spectrum life, I Am, inspiration, love, personal growth, personal power, quiz, receive, remember, self-awareness, surrender, transformation, wholeness
word for today & every day: surrender
by rachel
This word pushes buttons all over the place! Give in, give over to something larger than yourself. Sink to the floor and cry and wail if you must, and acknowledge you’re lost, confused, afraid. To some, it means to give up, to accept defeat, to hand your sword over to the enemy. It means “I have lost.” It’s something you scream out loud so your brother or sister or best friend will stop tickling you. Others couch it in religious […]
Categories: inspiration, transformation, word of the day • Tags: give in, inspiration, let go, life, personal growth, surrender, wisdom, word of the day
poetry month: how the men want to fly!
by rachel
How the Men Want to Fly by Rachel Snyder I am holding men’s hearts in my hands these days, running my fingers over toughened scar tissue, tracing the rutted pathways of emotion run roughshod, and breathlessly lingering when I feel myself sinking into soft spots around the edges. The braille of a man’s heart is not so different from my own. They come one after another, dragging their piecemeal armor on the ground behind them, rusting and clanging and kicking […]
Categories: inspiration, men, poetry, spirituality, transformation, uncategorized • Tags: descent, feminine, goddess, hero's journey, inspiration, masculine, men, mythopoetic, national poetry month, poetry, priestess, soul, surrender, transformation
