Rev. Ani
Into the Space, a Greater Reality is Born
An Advent Reflection photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash.com Space is the environment into which all things are born. Yet, we crowd...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Participating in Daybreak
Poems From The Porch Dawn is singing her morning song, lighting up the black trees and inviting the roosters to call in the day....
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
You've Got This
Poems From The Porch Photo by x ) on Unsplash.com The choice is yours. You feel these compelling desires to develop yourself in a...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
Maybe You Can Relate
Poems From The Porch A new kitten showed up yesterday. It is clear that she wants to belong. She sits on the edge of the porch, engaging...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Simple Joy of Being-ness
Poems From The Porch Sitting on the porch, a gift in itself, highlights the simple joy of being-ness. A fragment of web, roguishly...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
The Rightness of Your Unfolding
Poems From The Porch The purslane buds wait every morning to open to the warmth of the sun. The brilliant rays invoke their passionate...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
Holiness Discovering Holiness
Poems From The Porch Sweet mist veiling the blue Crackling fire offering aroma Cozy morning scene presenting the gifts of the day Merton...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 10, 2021
- 1 min
In All Things
Poems From The Porch to let go of striving and the need to know to relinquish the search and the chase to rest in silence of mind and...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
A Duality of Preferences
Poems From The Porch resistance and clinging precursors of suffering pain labeled bad avoid and avert pleasure labeled good grasp and...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
Seeing the Face of God
Poems From The Porch So often I have failed to recognize You, Breath of my breath, for I have been enchanted by your love notes left...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Underwhelming Choice
Poems From The Porch Did you not know that you would have to suffer these things in order to enter into your glory? Did you imagine that...
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Rev. Ani
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
In the Breaking of the Bread
Poems From The Porch In the morning sunlight on the elderly oak, in the crispness of the autumn cool, in the affection of a purring...
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
Fearless
Poems From The Porch photo by Benjamin Davies on Unsplash.com The master reassured his disciples saying, “I go before you to prepare a...
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 28, 2021
- 2 min
Indestructible
Poems From The Porch photo by Dewang Gupta on Unsplash.com The master faced his worst nightmare willingly, initial resistance released....
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
Priceless
Poems From The Porch What grand gesture would you have me do to show my love? Sweeping you off your feet for an extravagant night's...
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 26, 2021
- 2 min
Calming the Storm
Poems From The Porch photo by Harli Marten on Unsplash.com The disciple was afraid and expected the master to feel the same way. His...
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 25, 2021
- 2 min
Raging Against The Storm
Poems From The Porch Photo by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash.com The master sat reclining comfortably on a cushion while the storm raged...
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
Pour Out Your Honey
Poems From The Porch photo by Sophie Nengel on Unsplash.com I come not with an empty spoon to greet the day, but with the vastness of an...
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Who Told You That You Should Be Ashamed?
Poems From The Porch http://www.danamanly.com/gallery-ii Let me see again. If you choose, you can make me clean. I do choose. Be made...
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Rev. Ani
- Oct 7, 2021
- 2 min
The Gifts of the Day
Poems From The Porch I have come out to the porch to receive the gifts of the day, and they are many. There she is, a confederate rose...
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