August 27, 2023 – A

If only we could see ourselves
"as ithers see us"!
Even this sunflower,
completely exposed for all to see
cannot get at the heart of 
the inner flower.
All we see of ourselves
is what we exhibit to others to see,
with no way of dropping into
our inner space
in order to get to the bottom
of what is going on with us,
and know who all we also are
and are capable of being.

I chose hermeneutics as my career path
which is a method/process/procedure 
for getting to the bottom of truth
about biblical texts,
but that was subterfuge/evasion,
concealing from myself the real
hunger of heart and soul:
Getting to the bottom of ME,
only to discover somewhere along the way
that there is no bottom to the truth
of truth or to the truth of who we are.

We all are more than meets the eye,
any eye,
all eyes--
an infinite, eternal, absolute mystery
seeking revelation/revealing/comprehending/
understanding/knowing/etc.
And the more we know, the more there is to know,
which makes all of us each other,
expressing/exhibiting/exposing ourselves
to "ithers" in ways that reveal ourselves,
not only to them,
but, more importantly, to us,
if we allow ourselves to see/hear 
what we are concealing in the act of revealing
who we are and also are.

Sex is a way of avoiding intimacy--
the intimacy of knowing and being known,
while all the while,
"wanting so badly for someone to know us"
and concealing while revealing who we are
and also are.

Every night, our dreams expose ourselves
to ourselves,
declaring in the language of dreams,
"This is how it is with you right now!"
And we wake up saying,
"That was some weird dream I had last night!"

The clues are everywhere all the time,
to who we are and also are.
We are "right there" in every act/word,
and those acts not-acted
and those words not-said.

We have come to know who we are and also are.
And need only to pay attention to ourselves
to follow the thread of daily revelations
to the heart of who we are and also are,
which is a heart that expands as we look
as we all become more than we can
"ask, or think, or imagine."

The adventure of being alive!
Following/becoming/being "the spirit
that is like the wind,
blowing where it will."

What a wonderful thing that we are missing out on,
losing ourselves, as we do,
in sex/drugs/alcohol/money/shopping/eating...
And all the diversions/distractions/entertainments
we pursue to avoid seeing/knowing/understanding
who we are and also are.

World without end.

Hallelujah! May it be so! Just as it is!

Let us be off on the journey without end! Amen!

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