Outer conflicts, inner peace
A spiritual partnership in poetry & prose
Nearby
Somewhere nearby
but out of sight
there are acres
of sweet meadows
where those who have
gone before we work,
casting seeds of love
and watching over them
until they germinate.
Gradually they grow
through into our world
where they bloom,
gentle and delicate
and covered in dew,
along the battle lines,
in sorrowing hearts
and between animals,
people, plants, and nations.
Each one bears
a hope for the future
and those who plant them
do so because once
they have passed
they realize that
without question,
the most important
moments of their lives
were those in which
love bloomed.
© David Davidson 2023
More of David’s poetry is available on fromagreenhill.com
Another day, another war
Inspired speech
Ah yes! An exhalation of breath, a pause, a sense of wholeness and peace, all these sensations commonplace to you now as you sit down to write, to think, to travel into another Realm, my Realm, which interlaces with your own.
What does this Realm have to offer? Succour, wisdom, understanding? Yes, but perhaps most importantly of all, it is its familiarity that brings peace. Familiarity may seem a strange word to use, but it is, after all, the home of your soul.
It does not detach your soul from its home, and so to be given the space in your waking hours to visit creates this sense of wholeness that you experience. A person is whole when they are in contact with their soul intentionally.
Now that might seem extreme to you, but it is true, and the division within the world between spirituality, belief, or faith and humanity, for want of a better word, is affecting the progression of humanity.
Let me put it another way; if spirituality were the norm, then so would be peace, wisdom, and succor, and it would share these qualities across the world and towards your world. It would be second nature, for if people feel whole within, they seek wholeness without and would naturally consider fragmentation as unnatural and in need of healing.
But even your world has divided spirituality, and people have accepted these divisions. They classified spirituality as if it were optional, and yet no person alive does not have a soul and a Higher Self, and all living creatures have a group soul.
So what does that tell you about my realm? Well, it tells you it is your realm, too. It is the Realm of humanity which is just a breath, a pause, and a belief away. It is there for the grasping, not for the owning, but for the companionship, the de-fragmentation, and the peace.
As you sat down, you thought of the war that has broken out in your world over the last few days. Another war, no doubt, where people will pitch one religion, faith, or sense of entitlement against another. Here people will die and return to the Absolute, just like their brothers and sisters across the artificial divide.
All will return to the Realm of Soul and see the divisions melt away as Love embraces them and welcomes them home. There, they will engage with the lessons of the past and consider how they have recreated them once more, or learned from them.
They will see how far they moved away from Love, and yet how Love accompanied them every step of the way. As their understanding expands to embrace all aspects of Love, then they too will feel whole and pray for that sense of wholeness to fill all those yet to walk this earth. They will shower peace on their compatriots in life and pray that they too will pause, take a breath, and connect consciously to the peace that they now shower in their former homeland.
A homeland that is no longer a country or a state but the entirety of humanity. A peace emboldened by their learning, their understanding, and knowledge, born of experience, heartbreak, and loss but now imbued with Love. Peace be with you.’
© ZD Finn 2023
Finn has been publishing her inspired journals, at the Library of Lives, since 2021. She has named her inspirer, the ‘Librarian’. More information from zdfinn.com. This extract, dated October 2023, was first published in Soul Magazine.
David and Finn have been partners for fifty years and have many past life connections. They have been members of a Love-based spiritual group and are committed to Bringing Light to life through meditation and supporting others to strengthen their connection to the soul through individual and group work, writing, channeling, poetry, and healing. They are based in London, UK.
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