The Oasis of The Holy Family of Nazareth
This Symphonic Poem was written by Maureen in 2005.
Little Images of Light (1)
The sun shone on the floor, and the sun shone so brightly that it cast its reflections in a myriad of colours: colours which were so bright and clear and pure that they lit up the room and showed it to be a very beautiful little room, so full of lightness and brightness and colour that it shone, and gave me the impression that I was living in a place which was so full of light that this simple room became for me a whole beautiful experience of light, which was very very powerful and colourful and clear.
The room was bathed in this glow for a moment which was very beautiful in its understanding of light, because I could see that light is full of every dimension possible, light encompasses every single facet of colour and brightness and lightness that is possible; and the light of this room gave me an experience which was very beautiful in its intense understanding of light, beacuse I knew that the light could show me very clearly that God is with us in light. God is the being who is very much bound to light, and when we look at light and see it in its purity, in its understandng of itself as brightness and colour, then we are really looking very deeply into God, because God is light. As we do this it shows us that we are really moving into an understanding of life which is fully dimensional; if we are able to look into light, if we are able to see light in its purity, we are moving quite deeply into an understanding of Life which is very true.
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Little Images of Light (2)
The garden was bathed in light. The trees and the flowers and the grass were all speckled with light in a way that was very beautiful. The light danced among them and upon them and scattered them with radiance which was very clear and colourful and bright and imbued them with light so strongly that they became fragmented as it were into a multitude of colour and lightness and brightness, the whole picture was so alive and vibrant and absolutely full of sound and music, because as I looked at the sunlight dancing upon the garden in this way I was aware that the light was producing vibrations which were very beautiful and simple and rhythmic, and full of a music which was gving to the picture an ethereal understanding of beauty, in that everything here melted into this beautiful understanding of light: the sound ,the colour, the brightness, the shape, the form, all came together in a beautiful picture which was so full of lightness, colour, vibrancy,energy,sound, music, that the whole picture conveyed an impression of perfec simplicity, peace beauty and truth.
Everything that I looked at here was filled with light, giving it a radiance which let me look right into the heart of each flower each blade of grass and know that God was within them, giving them this Life and vitality. Every little part of the picture came together in a way that was very beautiful and whole and complete, showing me that God was moving through this picture in the most beautiful rhythmic flow, which really was His Spirit of Life His Spirit of Love His Spirit of Oneness, because in that moment I felt myself to be part of the picture. I melted into the picture and became so inter-twined with it that we blended together in a beautiful moment of lightness and brightness and colour and peace.
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Little Images of Light (3)
As I walked into the room I could see that it was full pf people, and the people were laughing and smiling and singing and dancing, and letting themselves feel so happy and light and bright and so colourful that the ambience of this was a very delightful understanding of Life, in that the movement here was perfectly simple, beautiful and loving, and everyone was able to convey this to each other in a way that was very very beautiful and pure, and absolutely linked with a sensation of happinesss that bubled over and spilled into the atmosphere with an effervescence, vitality and energy that was very very powerful and strong.
I knew that this was an understanding of Life that was letting me see that Life is only real when it conveys this sense of lightness, brightness, colour and happiness, and the sense of wishing to give Life to each other in this way. This whole experience of Life should be full of this self-giving, this life-giving. this whole understanding of Life as bound to light and love and energy and vitality, and a desire to uplift each other into it so perfectly and beautifully and simply that all the time Life is becoming more beautiful, more peaceful, more happy, more loving, more full of God and His Spirit flowing through us in a way which is perfectly relaxed, harmonious rhythmic, able to give us such a sense of peace that this is the way in which God shows us that He has created us to live Life in this way.
As this whole ambience develops, diffuses, spreads and merges into Life itself, the flow of this is so beautiful that Life begins to transform itself into a very beautiful picture, letting people understand that God is giving Life so that Life should be perfect; Life should be full of love, Life should be full of an uplifting experience which is moving people all the time deeper and deeper and deeper into the fullness of Life, into the fullness of happiness, into the fullness of a whole understanding of each other, which is showing each other that they are really wishing to give each other everything that is beautiful and good and true.
The momentum of this is creating a beautiful flow of life-giving energy which is filling up the world with its power, its strength, its vigour and its vitality, and the world is becoming so light and bright, beautiful and colourful, that it really is a place to be understood as perfection: a place which is so perfect that people within know that they are creating with God a beautiful sphere which is so full of love, light, peace, happiness, colour, brightness and vibrancy that nothing could be more beautiful.
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Little Images of Light (4)
This way of being in light is really the very clear understanding of the fact that God has made people so that people can be full of light, full of love, full of energy, full of vitality; this is the way that He wishes people to be. He has created people to be very fully aware of their beauty as beings of love and light and this is a very clear understanding of Life because God wishes people to understand Life in this way. He really does wish people to know that they are beautiful, they are good, they are loving, they are full of lightness and brightness and colour and vibrancy which makes them feel so full of Life, so full of energy, so full of everything that they wish to be full of, that this is Life in fullness.
The picture of Life is really the very simple understanding of God giving Life, because God has given Life in fullness out of love. God is that Being of Love who creates out of love and everything He creates is full of light, because light is simply that clearest purest understanding of reality, and God has created everyone and everything to be very real. He wishes everyone and everything to be so beautiful, so colourful, so absolutely bound to Himself in love and light, that this bond with God is letting people move with Him very beautifully and colourfully and lightly and brightly, in a very easy energetic way. This really is the Holy Spirit at work in the world at work in people, at work in Life, because the Holy Spirit is really the Spirit of wholeness, the Spirit of everyone and everything. God is the Being who loves so deeply that His Love is Life itself, and Life itself is everyone and everything that exists, so God is in everyone and everything. God is in you, God is in me, God is in every little flower and plant and twig and every little creation, there is God in the centre, because without God that little flower that ,little plant, that little twig would not be: without God you would not be, without God I would not be, and He wishes us to be so full of Life that we let this Life spill over in a beautiful lightness and brightness and colour which lets Him see it as His own reflection. He can look at us and see Himself in us, because we reflect His lightness back to Him. This is such a beautiful simple picture of how we should be, that this picture is the very clear understanding of ourselves which lets us know in our heart that we are beings of love, beings of light, beings so fully bound to God that He really has made us within His image of Love and Life, and He wishes us to be with Him in this way always.
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Little Images of Light (5)
Where there is sadness,unhappiness,suffering,pain, grief, misery, there is no light in fullness,because God is letting people understand that really they should be lifting each other out of this misery, out of this grief,out of this unhappiness, by giving each other light. Light is the way in which they can lift each other beyond pain, lift each other beyond suffering into a beautiful understanding of Life that is so peaceful, free, beautiful, and happy that its creating a very bright, light, colourful picture, so perfectly real and deep and true, that everyone wishes to belong with this picture, because this is Life.This is Life in a full understanding of everything that it should be: a way of being whole, a way of being happy, a way of being peaceful, a way of knowing that one is living Life to the full and knowing that God is with everyone in Life, looking at them and seeing that they are reflecting Him in their way of Life, in their way of living, giving to each other all the love that they can give, giving to each other all the happiness that they can give, giving to each other everything that they wish to give to each other so that they can live together in a harmony, in a blend of Life that is so perfect that this really is a Heaven. And this is Heaven. This is an experienec of Heaven which is so simple, because Heaven is really an understanding of Love which lets everyone unite in Love in a beautiful melody which is so tuneful, is sympathetic, so absolutely united in this understanding of love, that everybody is using the love that they have within them to let it melt together in a beautiful fusion of love, which is so bright and light and colourful and absolutely pure and shining and scintillating, that it lets them move within this aura in a beautiful light, easy rhythmic movement, and they drink from this Life, and they give this Life and this Love to each other, and the whole moment is so perfect that they are in ecstasy. They live in a beautiful understanding of love and light and peace and happiness, which lets them understand that God is with them, united to them in this beautiful understanding of love, and they are united to each other in this beautiful understanding of Love, and this perfect moment is so intense that they realise that they have everything that they desire, and they possess everything that they desire so deeply and richly and fully that nothing is missing, everything is here, everything is complete, and everything is perfect.
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Little Images of light (6)
The lightness, the brightness, and the colour are simply an understanding of Life which is real. Anything outside of this understanding is really not true or real, because anything devoid of light is not as God wishes it to be, and God wishes to see everyone moving in light so simply and beautifully that this really is a movement which is developing the light, so that it becomes brighter and clearer and clearer, and moves everyone into a clarified understanding of what they should be, and where they are going. As the light gets brighter they see more clearly, and as they see more clearly they understand that they are moving into a very simple, beautiful, bright,light,colourful perception of Life. Life is vitality, Life is energy,. Life is a whole understanding of these in a really clear way, and Life should be lived in this way, as a meaningful expression which people can offer to each other, because really God has given Life, so that people can live their Life to show each other that Life is beautiful and good and true, and Life has so much to offer that is beautiful and good and true. And people are wishing to give each other this happiness and this very beautiful understanding of Life, so that Life becomes more and more and more beautiful, because people are meant to be beautiful, people are meant to be full of light and Life,people are meant to be full of vibrancy and colour, people are meant sparkle with an effervescence which is that spirit of Life within them, flowing through them beyond them to let each other see this and know that they are reflecting each other to each other. And God is seeing them as His own reflection, and the beautiful understanding of Light is ceated within these images of light to form a perfectly prismatic understanding of Light in that each person reflects that lightness which is God's love and light and Life within him, and it shines through him and offers itself as a beautiful picture of light. And these little images of light come together to form a whole picture of light which is so beautiful that they shine and they scintillate and they effervesce,and they show God that He is looking at His reflection, because people are reflecting back to Him all of His Love, all of His Light, all of His beauty, all of His colour, all of His splendour, in their way of wishing to give Him a true representation of everything that they are within Him and His loving Heart, which really is the whole way in which God keeps us alive: within His Heart, His life-force pulsing through us so that we are encompassed by His love and His light, and we shine within them in a very peaceful, happy, simple, secure and loving way.
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Little Images of Light (7)
So now we see that we are beings of love and beings of light: beings who have been given Life so that Life is bright and beautiful and colourful, and everything about Life should be this way because we can make it this way. This way is simply a way of life which is so bright, so colourful, so full of love, light, energy, vitality, everything that is very vibrant and strong and alive,- this is Life. This is the colourful way of living that people are able to to achieve.People can achieve this way of living, people can live like this, people can be like this, people can be happy together like this, people can move themselves in a beautiful way of living, a beautiful way of loving, which is lifting each other into Paradise. Paradise, -an earthly Paradise ! A paradise which is so beautiful that people understand it to be Heaven on earth, -Heaven on Earth in a very beautiful scenario, which is letting them live together, love together, be together in perfect happiness.
This picture is real because this picture is the picture that God has decided upon as Reality. He knows that it is possible, He knows that it will be achieved, and He wishes to let people know that it will be achieved, and He wishes to let people know that it will be achieved so perfectly, that everything will come together in a moment of perfect bliss which will let everyone understand that this is the meaning of Life, this is the meaning of Love, this is the meaning of God, this is the meaning of themselves. The perfection will be so beautiful,that they will understand themselves to be totally, perfectly at one with God, each other and themselves, in a harmony which is so pure and so light and bright and beautiful, that it lets them understand themselves to be perfected.
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Little Images of Light (8)
The leaves are quivering, the flowers are quivering, the blades of grass are quivering, the whole scene is alive with a vibrancy which is totally pure in its understanding of colour, because it is so clear and bright, light and beautiful, that it conveys to the scene an ambience which is totally pure ; an ambience which so deep and rich and intense that it really is an ultimate understanding of colour and lightness and brightness. The movement here is so rhythmic, so harmonious, so melodious, so tuneful, that everything is perfectly synchronised, everything works together in a relationship which is so perfect that this is the ultimate understanding of movement, in a motion which is perfectly beautiful and light and easy and simple, and absolutely integrated. Everything is beautiful, everything is perfect, everything is peaceful, and everything glows with a deep understanding of peace which is simply the understanding that everything is perfectly at one, everything is whole, everything is complete within it everything; Beauty, Truth, Order, Form, Peace, Love, a whole understandng of the deepest sense of unity and harmony is so blended together in a fusion of Love, Light, and Peace, that this really is the ultimate unerstanding of happiness. And the scene conveys this through its beautiful blend of colour, form, sound, music,poetry, everything in perfect symetry, everything so beautifully blended that the oneness and the wholeness is total.
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Little Images of light (9)
I am absolutely enveloped in light, and the light is letting me feel so perfectly at ease that this way of feeling is giving me the utmost understanding of myself. All of myself responds to this
lightness in that I understand that God as given me Life so that I can move into Life in this very beautiful, light, bright, energetic way; a way which is so simple so loving, so beautiful, so pure, so much bound to Him, that if I let myself be within
Him in this simple way, this loving way, this light and easy motion, I move with Him so easily, so harmoniously, that I understand myself to be at one with God. I understand myself to be moving with Him in a very simple rhythm which is that rhythm of Life
which lets me be so at one with Life, so at one with God, so at one with myself, that I find within this oneness a Peace which is very beautiful.
The Peace is the understanding of myself enveloped by God, God filling me with His light and His Love and His Energy, surrounding me with these, so that I feel constantly uplifted. I feel constantly to be moving in a very easy, relaxed way, which is letting me understand that Life should be this way, Life is a movement which is rhythmic, a movement which is constant, a movement which is light and bright and colourful, and able to give such vitality and energy that this is the whole understanding of God in the world giving Life. God's Spirit is moving through the world in a very loving constant easy rhythmic motion: this flow of Life is His Spirit of Life, His Love, His Light,His Power, His Energy, His vital Force of Life flooding through the world giving it Life, giving it everything that it needs to sustain itself in a constant rhythmic flow.
If I let myself move with this flow, gently, simply, harmoniously, peacefully, working with it in a relaxed way, moving with it in a relaxed way,letting it envelop me, letting it flow through me, letting it give me everything of its lightness and brightness and colour and energy, so that I can move with it in such a rhythmic way that I develop myself within this movement and know that I am flowing with this life-force in a way which is very simple and beautiful and pure, then I am moving constantly into an understanding of Life which is letting me see that Life is giving me a lightness and brightness and colour which are showing me clearly that God is with me, God is sustaining me, God is lifting me into His Heart in a very constant, beautiful, rhythmic motion, so that I can be here with Him, moving with Him in a Peace which envelops me and lets me understand the depth of His Love, because this Love is giving me everything that I need to be perfectly at one with Him, myself, and everyone, in a very beautiful simple understanding of happiness.
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Little Images of Light (10)
A beautiful impression of lightness and brightness and colour, a dazzling display of splendour, a pure prismatic understanding of light in a multitudinous, reflective development so scintillating and shining and glowing and full, an incandescent understanding of light, which is letting the light pass through a whole development, allowing it to be purified and understood as clarity. The light shines so clearly that it conveys a deep, intense impression of total purity, and this purity lets the lightness become clarified so that it is seen to be a total perfection of light, so bright and pure and clear that it reveals itself as perfect purity, perfect clarity, perfect identification of itself in this splendid way, and the splendour is so dazzling, so bright, so pure, so clear, that everything around it is saturated with it, because it simply, transmits itself in a beautiful aura of lightness and brightness and colour.
The colour becomes identified with everything around it and everything is imbued with this colour, everything is saturated with this colour, this colour pervades everything and gives it a beautiful lightness and brightness which is so pure that the scene is perfect. Dazzling, scintillating, shining, glowing, an incandescence of light that is so pure that one is lifted into it, one becomes a part of the light, one feels the light pervading one so strongly and softly and lightly so perfectly, that one becomes totally purified within the light.
The light lets one melt into it, fuse into it, in a beautiful moment of clarity, which lets one feel so much a part of the light, so much at one with the light, so identifiable with the light that , the light is one's meaning, light is one's essence, light is the whole meaning of oneself in a very clear understanding of Love. Love is so much bound to Light, because Love is an understanding of light which shows one very clearly that light belongs with Love, Love belongs with light, the two are melted together in a whole understanding of each other, and the purity of this is the knowledge that Love is Reality. Love is everything that is true and real and beautiful, everything that is strong and vibrant and colourful, everything that is clear and shining and bright, everything that is bound to Peace, because Peace is the deep understanding of Love, which lets one feel so deeply, see so deeply, know so deeply that God is the Being who is full of this lightness, full of this brightness, this colour, this whole understanding of Love, because God is Love, God is Light.
God is the Being who pervades everyone and everything with this lightness and brightness and colour, this dazzling understanding of Himself as that Being who is so pure that He is able to transmit His essence in such a clear and beautiful way that it pervades everyone and everything in a moment of pure light, which lets everyone and everything be lit up with this light in a beautiful understanding of themselves. As one moves closer to God, one understands that He is bound to one, in a whole understanding of Light and Love and Peace, this whole vibrational understanding of God's Heart pulsing through everyone and everything is really the ultimate understanding of oneself, because in this moment one knows that God is there, God is here, God is everywhere, God is so close He is absolutely integrated into everyone and everything in a wholeness that is complete, in a closeness that is complete, in a deep bond which is so beautiful and loving and absolutely whole, that He is pervading everyone and everything with His Love and His Light and His Peace and His Energy, encompassng them with it, shielding them with it, protecting them with it, allowing them to be so at rest within it that they can float in this ambience in a whole understaning of themselves as bound to God, in a very simple, relaxed, beautiful movement, which is so light, so easy, so simple, so rhythmic, so melodic, so perfectly bound to Love, that this is perfect Peace.
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Little Images of Light (11)
Perfect Peace, perfect Love, perfect Light, a beautiful perfection which pervades me, showing me that God is wth me so deeply, so fully, so lovingly, so splendidly, so beautifully bound to me in such a whole way that I am absolutely saturated with this feeling, this deep deep understanding of myself, this deep rich intense beautiful moment of pure Love,which shows me that Love is so deep that it is able to hold within it everyone and everything. God holds within Himself everything, everyone in a beautiful perfect understanding of His Love for them: and everyone and everything responds to this Love knowing that God is sustaining them within the Love, knowing that God is giving them everything of Himself to let them be fully complete in an integrated understanding of themselves and each other. And they give God their Love, they give each other their Love, and the Love spills over into a beautiful understanding of happiness which is so full, that everyone drinks from this happiness constantly, knowing that they are saturating themselves and each other with it, and God is allowing them to exist within this momentum of happiness in perfect unification with Himself.
This sense of unity is so delightful, so sweet, so pure, so perfectly blissful, that everyone and everything is here in total ecstatic understanding of themselves, in an integrated understanding which shows them that they are belonging with each other in this beautiful understanding of themselves in a way which lets them know that they belong with God and each other so totally, so perfectly, so deeply and richly and fully and brightly and lightly and colourfully, peacefully and lovingly, that this height and depth and fullness is the ultimate understanding of themselves, each other and God,in a moment of total understanding which lets them know that they are perfectly whole.
The Encounter
The hill that they climbed was very steep, and they knew as they did so that they were moving into a whole understanding of life, because they were moving together in a way which was quite unreal..As they climbed the hill they were aware of a mist which surrounded them, which enveloped them, and which was inceasingly letting them feel that they were of air. This was an experience which neither of them had known; neither of them had ever felt this sense of lightness and airiness and buoyancy, a resilience which showed them quite simply that they belomged with air They realised in this moment that they were experiencing a whole understanding of life which was very new,really quite able to be understood as a phenomenal appreciation, which was never-the-less quite easy and acceptable to their consciousness, and they appreciated also that as they moved together in this way they were understanding that life for them was taking on a new depth, a new reality, a new sense of realism, and a quite clear-cut appreciation of the fact that this was how life should be. They were aware also that their perception was becoming increasingly clear; they were able to look beyond this mistiness and see that everywhere around them was full of light and colour, a brightness and a shininess and a newness that really was perfect, because it was showing them once again that this is how life should be. This is a reality which allows the vision to actually enter into a clarity which is so real that one knows without fail that this is reality.
The awareness of this was very very profound and acute, and lifted both of them into an ecstatic appreciation of the moment in a way which was so beautiful that neither needed to speak. Both were encompassed by a sense of reality and beauty and peace and freedom and a sense of belonging with each other that was very very complete. This sense of belonging was so complete that they experienced a very deep understanding of wholeness. They were able to understand that in this moment they were experiencing a very clear perception of everything that is true; they were also aware that this very clear perception was showing them that they belonged absolutely with this moment and within this moment was encapsulated a very crystalised understanding of time which was showing them that every facet of their existence was encapsulated, every single facet of themselves was here, and more than this, everything of themselves which related to everyone else was here, because within this moment they were able to appreciate that life in its reality encompasses everything and everyone. They were also aware of a deep sense of being, a sense of really existing within this moment with a perspicacity that allowed them to look right into the heart of reality and know that God does exist, because in this moment they were very acutely aware of belonging with God in a way which identified themselves very closely with Him. They appreciated quite simply that this feeling of closeness was very deeply bound to Love and to Light, a feeling of deep peace which went way beyond any kind of physical experience into a realm of experience which was very very beautiful in its understanding of the spiritual. In this moment they felt rapt in an ecstatic understanding of themselves, each other, everyone, everything and God, and they realised quite simply that they were able to to know that their meaning, the meaning of themselves, evryone, everything and God ,was Love- is Love. This knowledge was so perfect that they were able to really look at themselves within this moment and know that they were seeing themselves in reality which was very complete. As they moved deeper into this reality they were so aware of this beauty that beauty for them became totally integrated into their vision, and everything that they looked at was imbued with this beauty, this lightness, this colour, this vibrancy this scintillating understanding of life which they were experiencing, and they knew without doubt that this moment was the perfect moment of life which they wished to experience forever, because anything less than this moment would not allow them to understand reality or to understand their meaning or to understand anything which was meaningful, and they simply wishe to be encapsulated in this moment forever.
As they walked down the hill they were aware of a feeling of lightness which was allowing them to begin to absorb a new sensation which was also very real; a sensation which was bound completely to an understanding of light which let them realise that this lightness was a very real awareness, a very strong feeling, a very simple understanding of the fact that they belonged with light, and as they realise this they began to move so quickly that they were constantly allowing themselves to retain an equilibrium which was very complete. They felt so stable, so sure, so deft in their movement that they could really understand themselves to be moving on air, and this feeling was once again perfect. The buoyancy, the resilience, the whole understanding of themselves as beings of light and air and love, beings who were able to move so simply and lightly and easily that gravity for them was in no way experienced. Their lightness was their sense of a beautiful relationship with life which was letting them move increasingly in to a very deep understanding of light, and the light was showng them that they belonged here so perfectly that nothing would ever prevent them from seeing and feeling and experiencing in this way. The whole movement was so beautiful that they reached the foot of the hill in a very simple understanding of ecstacy and they understood too that ecstacy is really that moment of pure perception which is able to give a very perfect appreciation of love. Love for them had been experienced in its fullness, and it had shown them that this fullnes and richness and height and depth is the truest experience of life, the most profound experience of life, the most perfect experience of life. And they knew that this reality would stay with them, this reality would be their appreciation of a perfect bond which would be their ultimate understanding of Love, and within this understanding they would be able to live their life so peacefully and freely and happily, that Life for them would reach a complete understanding of itself as bound very perfectly to Love.
Maureen Hughes