
Entering the Stream
Poems about Union
N. Thomas Johnson-Medland(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 7. February 2011
156 pages
978-1-62189-383-7 (ISBN)
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The notion and phrase of "entering the stream" has long been an image for merger and union. Most often it is meant to sum up the idea of union with the Divine Principle or God. Less often, yet still common, it is used to image the union of ideas, bodies, and movements.
The sense that one thing folds into or flows into another and gets lost is still a major underpinning toward the belief that there is some "ah ha" moment in life where we are able to drift out of simple, commonplace existence and enter the field of ALL knowing. We believe that there can be and is a moment of merger (a born-again instant), an awakening to something outside of what it means to be singularly dual.
It is not by chance that the two sacramental rites within Christianity that have the deepest roots in the gathered community over time--reaching down into the loam of our existence--are Baptism and Eucharist. The first--the initiation rite--is about dissolving into God and His mercy and forgiveness. We enter into Him and the fullness of His Kingdom. We are overwhelmed by the waters and emerge a new creature. The second--the continuation rite--is about God dissolving into us. He enters us bringing the fullness of His Kingdom. We ingest God (depending upon your theology) in either image or fact and we emerge a new creature.
The poems that follow are about this "axis of consumption," this "axis of dissolving" in our lives. We are swallowed up by God. We swallow up God.
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Eugene
United States
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Tom Johnson-Medland is the Food Services Manager for Pocono Plateau Camp and Retreat Center in Cresco, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Turning Within (1998). Tom continues to publish articles on end-of-life issues, spiritual direction and formation, and food service management. He lives at the camp with his wife Glinda and sons Zachary and Josiah.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction
- The Poems
- Boat 3.0
- Boat 2.0
- Boat 1.0
- Hidden Basin
- Moksha
- Nodding
- Spray
- Words
- A Feathered Wing
- Sweet-Kissing
- A Spiritual Father's Father
- Starkness
- Moths and Angels
- Chapel Chill
- Cold Bricks of Wisdom
- Flower Heart
- Lake Ambleside
- Flecks and Scales
- All Along
- Like That
- Pulling Down Light
- Opening in the Heart
- Slipping Away Again: God and yet another Hospice patient
- Stillness in the Wood
- Frozen Fallings
- Moon Rays
- The Eye of the Needle
- A Wave-Half Captured by the Ocean
- The Tears the Dark Sky Cried
- Hardening
- Morning Prayer
- The Trees Chant
- One Year
- No More Myth
- Mingled
- A Thousand Years of Staring
- Tear Clouds
- The Other Side
- Emptiness
- Elixir
- One Second
- Into the Earth
- Light from the Moon
- The Pearl of the Heart
- Pruning the Heart
- Beckoning
- The Holy Fire
- Here Now
- Subtle Changes in the Heart
- I Know
- Nitria and Sketis
- Waiting for Lent
- We Do Not
- In the Wind
- I own the Stars Tonight
- Dance of the One
- Feeding the Divine
- Across the surface
- Dream Sleep
- Sophia
- Water Runs Down
- The Heart Longs
- It Seems the Snow is Going
- Rain
- All Disappearing
- Beeswax Candles at Vespers
- Owl Moon
- Spring Peepers
- Hissing Raindrops
- All in the Tasting
- Veil
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