Like there’s a tree in the seed
There is God within me
The Unseen is clearly seen
When the love of Christ has set us free
Just as the drops that make the Ocean
Are full of all the Ocean is
So when we pour out who we are
We are receiving what we give
There is nowhere God is not
To include the reflection that we see
Closer than we could ever imagine
In every breath we ever breathe
© Copyright 2018 Pedro S. Silva II
There is nowhere God is not
Even in what doesn’t last
God gives all things a future
And is not shackled by the past
In our weakness strength is known
And through it we know each other
So through it we are all made One
Each a sister and a brother
So let us see our humanness
Through the eyes of the One who made it
That we might be repairers of the breach
For the world we’ve co-Created
© Copyright 2018 Pedro S. Silva II
Into Your hands I commit my spirit
Because I won’t endure this lie
This prison system cannot be True
Built on the illusion that we must die
Death’s nothing more or less than a doorway
Or when a movie changes scenes
Different characters embody roles
But there’s just One Dreamer of these dreams
Yet somehow we’ve conceived to deny this
Even though it makes no sense
In the beginning there was always One
And there only has been ever since.
I struggle everyday to express this
To live wholly in Your call
Knowing that I’m denying One
If I can’t see You in All
This is the fruit of religious life
Bonding body and mind to soul
Forsaking the separate self that never was
And abandoning false control
This is when the journey ends
We’ve found the only thing worth finding
And teaching each other is no longer done
We simply trust in Your reminding
This is what I live this Life for
Every other way must be undone
My spirit in the hands of the All in All
Completes what never had begun
© Copyright 2017 Pedro S. Silva II
All things to All things
Nothing is denied
But we’re fighting over bread crumbs
Because someone believed a lie
So now we kill each other
In our constant pursuit of more
We believe we are “consumers”
Because we don’t know what we’re for
Infinite Creation
Nothing more or less
But instead destruction follows us
When we put us to the test
Addicted to the thought of conquering
Sixty steps till we unlearn
That the truth of life is obvious
When we’re not looking for our turn
In the mean time there’s confusion
We’re told we have to choose a side
Contests between “us” and “them”
Where the winner doesn’t die
But what if someone told you
That everything is yours
And everything is everyone’s
And no one’s keeping score
The House is not divided
Upon the Rock is where it stands
Never to be shaken
By unreasonable demands
But because it can’t be broken
It won’t resist what it is we do
We can lie all the hell we want to
Because all of it’s untrue
Though we deny the Absolute
It simply continues as it is
Fully realized. No need to strive.
For it’s the life that we all Live
It’s the Bread that’s not devoured
Though we eat it to our fill
Diminishing every sense of loss
Like nothing ever will
When I feel led into temptation
I know it’s not from You
It’s because I’m looking at other things
That are telling me what to do
Thank You that I’m not listening
But I must admit that it’s a challenge
I’m trying to stand on what You said
But it’s hard to keep my balance
I know serving You is a narrow path
That comes with all I need included
But when I begin to look at the outer world
I start wondering if I’m deluded
Sure You always have provided
Showed me things few would believe
But maybe it’s all coincidence
And I have actually been deceived
That’s what I start to tell myself
Whenever I want to take control
Strung along by my desires
Fantasies trying to take their hold
I’m now wrestling with the Cosmos
Corporeality’s got me pinned
I’m on the verge of tapping out
And that’s just when You tap in
The Work You do’s amazing
You’re literally all over the Place
Making One out of many breaks
Through the bending of time and space
Things that seemed to be for evil
All of a sudden becoming good
Doing things I never thought You’d do
But I imagine You knew You would
Or maybe you did it for me
In response to my condition
You saw the mess I was headed toward
So You made my life Your mission
Either way I can say You’ve saved me
Time and time again
Absorbing my temptation
Thereby leading me from sin
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
Our Guardian Who art in Heaven
And on every other plane
Thanks for calling us into being
And holding us in Your Name
We seek to find your Kingdom
We live for it to come
A world beyond division
Where all are known as One
A place of infinite creation
Where all that’s good will last
Our future and our hope
Without the burdens of the past
Thy will for us is done
By Your Heaven born Design
As soon as we surrender
And walk the narrow line
By Your Word You feed us daily
With everything we need
Satisfying Holy hungers
That this world could never feed
You share the joy of Your forgiveness
By instructing we do it too
Forgiving others when they trespass
For they know not what they do
This frees us from temptation
From error we’re delivered
We enter into the Kingdom
When we imitate the Giver
In that State we behold Your Glory
And Your unassuming Power
That’s been our Light in a world of darkness
Preparing us for our hour
You’ve been creating us in Your Image
Though invisible it may be
Teaching us to practice the Art of Heaven
That only opened eyes can see
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
Nothing is what it seems
There’s always something underneath
Hidden worlds in every event
Taking action to be released
All you might see is what’s in front of you
Meanwhile a mystery unfolds
While you’re focusing on the “important things”
Secret stories are being told
Like the alarm that you just slept through
That will you make late to that early meeting
You will experience as an inconvenience
When in truth it’s an Angel’s greeting
Or that relationship that ended
That you thought would be forever
May be causing you a lot of pain right now
But it would be worse if you stayed together
Or what about that job of yours
That leaves you daily stressing
You think it’s about how much you’re paid
When it’s about how much you’re blessing
Your child who will not listen
That one who never stops debating
May be getting on your very last nerve
But you don’t know what they’re cultivating
This is what I remind myself
When things don’t seem to go my way
That God is shaping something in my soul
That is not always on display
And this isn’t true for only me
But for everyone around me
Even the people I consider not so nice
May have souls that would astound me
That’s why Abba tells me not to judge
My sisters and my brothers
Because we might see what our bodies do
But most times we can’t see each other
Of course you may not like this line of thought
I’m not suggesting that you should
All I want to do is encourage you
Because there is underlying good
It may be difficult to fathom
Especially when looking at the past
But even if everything went your way
It still was never meant to last
This world is like an incubator
That’s meant to help us build our strength
Not a place for us to make a home
Or seek to stay beyond its length
And everything that happens here
Is always more than it appears
Because we’re learning how to better choose
Between what’s from joy and what’s from fears
We’re being prepared for our true nature
That was not meant to stay in time
We are practicing being human
So we can handle what is Divine
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
There is a place where what we think we’ve lost
Is right here with us all along
Never not within our reach
Out of view but never gone
It’s a place that’s called Reality
It isn’t hard to find
All you need to do is reimagine you
And accept that time is not a line
It’s not even a circle
More precisely it’s like a sphere
Expanding all around you
So that any now is always here
With your focus on a center
Life moves in and out like breath
On the inhale you touch eternal life
While the exhale feels like death
But of course that is illusion
The in and out are wholly one
Try to divide them into two
And what you wind up with is none
But that is just a moment
In an infinitude of more
As soon as one ends another begins
That’s why no one’s keeping score
Now some would see this as their freedom
“I will do what I want to do.”
“No loss must mean no consequence.”
But actually it isn’t true
Despite the fact that all is here
And that time lasts longer than forever
There is a flow to how it goes
Which keeps it all together
There’s a pushing and a pulling
That manifests in waves
That creates alignments with likes and likes
Creating masters bound to slaves
Some people call it karma
I call it reaping what we sow
God probably calls it “It is what it is.”
But it’s a mystery we cannot know
It maintains itself through veiling
As we approach the truth we feel it shifting
Causing us to look again
Because now it feels like something’s missing
It’s not trying to be evasive
Even though that’s how it seems
Truth’s just trying to keep us moving
So it can pull us from the dream
There is really nothing to lose
This is the one thing we can gain
To wake us up from the fear of loss
Out of which we make up pain
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
How can I trust You today,
While still worrying about tomorrow?
Never present in the All that’s Now
When from the “future” I try to borrow
The day is sufficient unto itself
With all the fullness therein lies
Giving me all that I could ever need
If I could just see beyond my eyes
There is truly nothing missing
I am all I need to be
All absence revealing a greater Yes
From the view of eternity
There is no need for striving
All is accomplished in my vision
When I close my eyes to all that’s not
By making the One Decision
The gap in all things closes
Divisions now have ceased
When accepting You as the Soul Provider
And the Author of my Peace
On Earth as it is in Heaven
My hungers all have gone
Except the One that urges me to You
But is fulfilled when it comes on
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
The One for Whom we think we’re seeking
Is the One who sought us first
For we begin as a thought in the Eternal Mind
Before descending into birth
Personality, pursuits, and power plays
Had not yet even been conceived
But being formed in the “Always Is”
All we will be is achieved
Being fashioned out of what can’t be grasped
We cannot fathom the depths of Being
Or the heights to which we’re being led
If we surrender to Truer Seeing
God seeks us not to catch us
But to release us into Life
By first stripping us of all we’re really not
So that the real us comes to light
But the reason that we’re running
Is because what we fear that we might lose
We think that the life we’re making up
Is the only life that we can choose
We subscribe to false conditions
Thus becoming what is prescribed
Most conforming to illusion
Not knowing it’s based on lies
Even the god that we’re pursuing
Is rarely the God that truly Lives
Because any god that we can grasp
Has limits on what it gives
The God who seeks is ever giving
And from this giving emerges pleasure
We accept our need and God will give
That’s what keeps us all together
God’s Spirit pouring out
Gives our God the greatest joy
So every Word that ushers forth
Will never ever come back void
Even the slightest little whisper
God will seek with all abandon
Calling it back to its Wholly Source
Where no other creation can ever stand in
Once we’re found by Our Creator
We come to know what’s known by few
That the God who seeks is the God who finds
The God inside of you
Some of you might call this blasphemy
But not because of why you say
It’s really because a god who is not in you
Is a God you can keep away
Some of us wonder where God is hiding
We ask “Where can this God be?”
Not imagining that God’s invisibility
Comes from being too close to see
And thus we do so little seeking
So thank God we can be found
Just by choosing to get so very still
And trusting that God is all around
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
