Llueve en Sevilla. Fastidias la fiesta, Maestro. Y me haces sonreír:
Cómo eres.
Haces que justo ahora llueva a cántaros, privándonos de tanta devoción.
El Templo está lleno... con fieles, sí. Y con los comerciantes de siempre. Tus espinas, tus lágrimas sus ganancias.
Les estás estropeando todo, ¿no lo ves?
Lluvias que tanto necesita el Sur. Pero con tan pocos agradecidos. Con un látigo de truenos y un grito de relámpagos los echas a todos... ¡FUERA!.
Dices que no quieres sacrificios, ni shows. Bastan las trompetas, y las rodillas dobladas donde corazones con corazas te aclaman sin cesar.
¿Acaso son lluvias de luto, de tristeza, por habernos dado todo, hasta la muerte más cruel...
encontrándote al final clavado de nuevo, en el madero de nuestra indiferencia y olvido? Hoy, tan solo, abandonado como en esa Noche Terrible.
¿O puede que llores sin cesar, por las mujeres matadas, los niños abusados, empresarios cínicos, políticos corruptos...? Y por una Religión muerta que nos deja frustrados asfixiados y encerrados en una oscuridad más pesada que una tumba.
Pero es la lluvia lo que más necesitamos. ¡Que llueva en España! Toda la santa semana.
Derrama más, Agua Viva. Más... y más... y más.
Abre las fuentes, ordena tormentas. Día y noche, sin parar.
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Te buscaremos allí, agradecidos.
Saltaremos, jugaremos, tus amigos, mojados, como niños.
Cantando bajo la lluvia llenos de gozo, nadando en tu gracia perdidos en tu amor.
Soaring --
unfettered at last,
Startled, even shaken
by New Revelations
not unlike Peter's uncommon
meal, in the hot afternoon sun
that day in Joppa,
a crazy-quilt tablecloth
heaven-borne, three times,
to get his attention,
to shake him to the core,
to announce:
NOW ALL IS NEW.
It's shocking,
this "Galations Freedom".
Unsettling, scandalous even.
The Law is hard to cut loose.
The shackles that brought
order
security
that sure sense
of accomplishment, -- of tasks checked off the list --
chafed and tore,
cut our skin and numbed our hearts
to thoughtless obedience,
or fearful shirking.
What to do with this Freedom?
How to handle the New Rules,
tied round my heart with delicate
tracings,
spiderweb-like --
so easily melted by Temptation's glare.
Tied from my heart to Your's
My Tender Lover,
My Best Friend,
My All-in-All,
My King.
The weight of Sinai crashed down
on Peter's afternoon spread.
KILL AND EAT!, You command.
Yet Lord? How is that which was
unclean
now to be clean?
This dizzyness,
this falling
into
a
weightless
flight,
times almost dreamy,
like smitten lovers muse...
Where is it to lead?
How can it be true?
Why do our hearts burn so within us
at this News
of this great Grace,
this Love
so amazing,
so real,
so true?
Religion killed the one I love, sent him flying, halfway 'cross the room as his father reached for his trusted 'Bible Belt'. "Fags burn in Hell" he bellowed, blind with fury, as he whipped his dear son almost to death.
Religion killed the one I love, threw hot acid on her face, one day as she returned from school, without her head covering because she had been running through the fields of flowers, in giddy joy and ecstacy. And forgot.
Religion killed the one I love as he looked upward from the raucous flames that swept around his valiant form, his heart rising in triumph o'er that auto da fe, some 500 years hence. Their power fueled by greed; his riches, faith.
Religion killed the One I love. I know, I laid my head against His Breast, as we talked on and on
for hours, late, at 4 am, with the bookers and the Wall-Street boys, priests and power-pros.
He'd sigh, His Eyes always soft, His Voice so tender...
As He told us how the gays, the gone over-boards, the drunks, the dumb and the dizzy were already getting in,
In on the next Big Thing...
Life Eternal, Forever Young, botox-free Where the worthless are wealthy, the blind are painters...
And where His Hands still bleed from Love,
Just for proof...
Religion killed the One I love, strung Him up high, for mocking eyes and self-righteous stares of all who hail their Marys and say their prayers while turning up the temperature because the cold turns their words
En medio de tanto ruido, echo en falta aquella Voz tierna, bella, poética y siempre relevante que se oye dentro de las páginas vivas de El Libro Mágico de mi Maestro.
Si eres lector/a asiduo/a de este blog, lo conocerás por la multitud de citas y referencias que salpican los posts aquí.
Ahora, entrando en la nueva década, he pensado que sería bonito abrirlo un poco más... y más a menudo. Si anhelas alimentar tu espiritu, si te iría bien contar con un guía milenario, te podría interesar.
los textos sagrados: el susurro
de Su gran Amor por mi,
en el viento.
Hoy, en la iglesia, sabía que era sábado,
no domingo; ni era hora de ninguna misa.
Cogí la Mano de mi Maestro,
y caminamos juntos, Jesús y yo,
charlando, riéndonos, y... lloré,
por la alegría, el puro gozo
de compartir Su compañía.
Hoy, en la iglesia, las paredes: los prados verdes
y el techo: la inmensidad del cielo irlandés.
Hablé con Dios y me respondió.
Siento el calor de ese Beso,
todavía.
Donegal, Lough Eske, Irlanda
Today, at church, I talked to my God
And I didn't need any Men
in Black, to get between us,
to control the Conversation.
Today, at church, I walked with my Papá:
the choir: the birds in the trees...
an angel: the farmer who waved at me,
the sacred texts: the whisper of His great Love for me,
in the wind.
Today, at church, I knew it was Saturday,
not Sunday, nor was it time for any Mass.
I took the Hand of my Master
and we walked together, Jesus and I,
chatting, laughing, and.. I cried,
for the happiness, the sheer joy
of sharing His Company.
Today, at church, the walls: green pastures,
and the ceiling: the immensity of the Irish sky.
I talked with God, and He answered me.
I feel the heat of that Kiss,
still.
En su provacativo poema, la poetisa Jude Simpson se mete con Dios, explicando a Jesús por qué Su mensaje "no es apto" para la sociedad consumista, impaciente y exigente en la que vivimos.
Se queja de que sea tan dífícil encontrar a Dios; en sus palabras, "Oiga, mi tiempo es valiosísimo, entonces por qué debería tener que 'trabajar'? Por qué sea necesario una búsqueda, para encontrar un tesoro?!"
Te animo a que disfrutes del vídeo -- es impactante y divertido. Pero dado que viene en inglés, con su fuerte accento británico, te incluyo a continuación el poema escrito.
¡Un abrazo!
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Not cut out for religion
I ask you, what's the answer, and you just ask me questions, and I'm like, "Hello, I thought you were God?" Can't I just download you, pay-as-I-go to decode you - a quick fix listen on my i-Pod?
I ask you, what's the answer, and you say, "Where does the wind blow?" Well, if Dylan couldn't find it, then I won't get too far. What's with all this mystery? How can you say, "Follow me" when I don't even know where you are?
Your religion needs a makeover, you've got to de-clutter. Make it softer, gooier and spreadable like butter. I need a faith I can talk about and not sound like a nutter. You ought to be easy to follow.
Like, a hop-on-and-off open-top bus ride, a manual with A to Z tabs down the side, I want a sat-nav path to heaven, not a Lonely Planet guide. I wish you were easy to follow.
I want a Roman road map to instant glory a happy-ending-ever-after chick lit story and you just tell me another foggy allegory featuring corn and sheep and wine and clay pots.
What are you like? Do you want followers or not? Far be it from me to tell you what's what, but if you did make it easier I'm sure you'd get a lot more believers, Jesus.
Give me bite-sized thoughts in a faith shape sorter, No more spilt blood or living water, just a pint-sized god who's a straight talker. Make it easy to follow.
I want fruit-flavoured shots of the Holy Spirit, bite-sized, trite truths in Boyband lyrics "love" and "above" -- yeah, that should fill it. Make it easy to follow.
I want facts on a plate - don't want to have to question any, artificial roses every 14th of February. I want simple faith -- blind if necessary. Why aren't you easy to follow?
You say, "You are not my servant, now you are my friend". You say, "I will be with you until the bitter end." And I'm like, "Why bitter?" -- I wanted happiness on prescription. Isn't that the whole point of getting religion? And besides, friendship's harder -- can't I just buy the subscription?" Can't you be easy to follow?
Give me a clear-cut structure, not a friendship's fragilities, favourable rights with few responsibilities. I could follow that plan -- yeah -- religiously. That would be easy to follow.
I want three steps to beauty from a teenage advice mag; Ben and Jerry's Triple Chocolate straight out of the ice bag; ethically traded but with a Primark price-tag - I could say Amen to those.
I want box-up beliefs wrapped in tissue-paper presented by Fearne Cotton, and voiced by Tom Baker, with a hands-free contract to contact the Maker available from Tesco's.
I want Quick Time broadband access. Simple principles, easily practiced. Directly transactional prayers - the fact is, my time is precious, so why should I work? Why should treasure always require a search?
I want a message that's acceptable without having to plead it, that'll make people instantly realise they need it. Yeah, thanks for the Bible -- but have you tried to read it? You need to be easy to follow.
I want all the answers set out in a paperback of less than fifty pages, in the buy-now-read-it-later rack I'll skim it on the train down to visit Auntie Kate and back - nice and easy to follow.
Everyone will warm to its convenient slimness. It'll be easily digestible and provoke a certain tingliness, and every answer will be one sentence long, universally applicable, and in English. That would be easy to follow.
You see, I think you need to focus and refine your vision, if you want to market the brand they call "Christian". I say, "Give me clarity", you say, "Will you marry me?" With all due respect, Jesus, I don't think you were cut out for religion.
Tengo la suerte de tener una galería con grandes ventanas.
Y no mira hacia la calle, sino hacia atrás, al centro de la manzana.
Si conoces Barcelona, entonces sabrás que en los centros de las manzanas (o bloques, o bien cuadras...) hay espacio, luz, balcones, vecinos... vida.
Últimamente, me desconecto mucho simplemente escuchando el silencio, y los sonidos de la ciudad que lo acompaña. Y miro al cielo, viendo los cambios de la luz en cuanto más se vaya acercando el atardecer. Y veo las golodrinas jugando entre las nubes, ¡cuán traviesos son!
Escucho a dos niños jugando al escondite abajo (¡sin Play Station!).
Uno de los chicos cuenta en catalán: un, dos, tres, quatre, cinc, sis, set, vuit, nou, deu...
Ladra un perro. Un argentino habla por teléfono móvil; no encuentra la señal:
¿Oiga? ¿oiga? ¿oiga?
Se oyen los vecinos ya cenando; sus tenedores golpean contra los platos.
Se rie una niña. Otra sirena, otra ambulancia rumbo Hospital Sant Pau. El cielo se oscurece. La brisa es suave y me acaricia, entrando por la ventana.
Y se oyen las golondrinas, trazando espirales en el cielo sobre mi ciudad.
Hoy es el primer día de la Primavera y a la vez, el Día Internacional de la Poesía.
Dedico esta entrada a todos los poetas y a cada poetisa que nos visita aquí ... a los enamorados, y a los que pronto los serán de nuevo.
Si puedes, tómate un respiro de 4 minutos para disfrutar de este vídeo de Celine Dion, que también aparece hoy en Radio Rio.
A parte del hecho de que su moda necesita una leve revisión y un buen estilista (como mi querido amigo Esaú Yori ;-), las bellas escenas en varios rincones de nuestra Aldea Global no tienen desperdicio.
A mi me encantan especialmente las escenas en el metro de Nueva York. Hermosas... Don't you think so Anna? ;-)
Quería compartir este poema con todos vosotros, recibido hoy por e-mail y escrito por mi tan querida amiga Mary Jo. Como algunos ya sabréis, es una persona que ama mucho, no sólo con palabras, sino con acciones prácticas, día tras día.
Te quiero Mary Jo - ¡gracias por este poema!
HOY TE REGALO MI CORAZÓN Para que ames lo que tienes a tu alrededor, A tu chica, a tu chico, a tu perro, a tu perra, A la vecina, al vecino, a las plantas, a las flores, A las puertas que se cierran, a las ventanas que se abren, A los obstáculos, a los triunfos, ama, ama, ama.
Bésalos, abrázalos, vívelos, disfrútalos Porque hoy te regalo mi “corazón”, es decir, mi cámara.
Tras mi cámara encontrarás los momentos de amor, de risas, de tristezas, que hemos compartido. Y en los momentos del olvido, mi cámara te recordará tu esencia, tu presencia y sobre todo tu amor a la vida.
Gracias por estar a mi lado. Te amo, del verbo amar.
Mary Jo Alberdi 14 de febrero de 2007 Dia de los enamorados
Mary Jo es fundadora de El Cine Secreto, una ONG formada por "un grupo de amigos y amigas apasionados por el cine, que quieren compartir su pasión cinéfila con otras personas y a la vez difundir el séptimo arte entre la población... y haciendo llegar el cine a personas con pocos recursos económicos o que no tienen acceso por su minusvalía."
This, too
is Victory:
muddied, fearful, tired
truthful, hoping.
Loving You. Seeking You.
Unwilling to say No to the Cross:
captured by such Love,
overwhelmed by such Mercy -
an understanding and compassion
far greater than any hymns have yet revealed.
Your loving eyes see my heart.
Your strong embrace breaks my fall.
Your caress smooths back my hair,
as You say softly, Shhhhhhhhh.
Rest in Me.
What counts is Joy.
My Joy
is your strength.
For you, with your faith,
have overcome the world.
Upon Observing People in the Rue Tesson We have no idea.
The miracles that surround us
are too heavy
in their beauty.
Perhaps the blindness
of each day's quehaceres
shields us,
protects us,
from too much awe:
a surge of Beauty
and Reverence
bound
to be lethal.
We claw at the scales
that Saint Paul
needed three days to let fall.
Yet many also
paint them,
pamper them,
want them there.
To unfocus the glare
of the Truth,
the Love
smashed on that Tree,
calling to us
in myriad tongues
Come live ! Come to My Feast ! Where Joy is full and Grace unlocks the secrets of every heart.