Month: September 2026

God, you have brought me through the Red Sea.
I have walked between the waters of difficulty and danger
with dry feet.
I have looked back and seen the forces of evil,
vanquished, on the shore.
Help me be humble; for they too have suffered.
Help me be grateful.
And yet I have not arrived;
the wilderness still lies ahead.
Keep my eyes on the promise.
Remind me always I am being set free.
Every step, every day, I am being set free.

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
Listen to the audio recording:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:57 — 1.3MB)

Subscribe: Spotify | RSS

We think of them as nobody,
whoever they are
we don’t want to see.
They are invisible,
the one at the intersection
with the ragged cardboard sign,
or off in some field far away
picking our produce.
Magicians we are,
able to make them disappear
right before our eyes.

Sometimes you feel all alone in the universe,
like God doesn’t even know you exist.
But for God to see you,
to see you with love,
who you really are—
giving you the power
to stand tall, to believe in yourself,
to know you are real and worthy and beautiful—
that would be salvation, no?

Imagine the power you have
not to save people’s souls,
but, miracle enough,
to see them.

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
Listen to the audio recording:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11 — 1.6MB)

Subscribe: Spotify | RSS

You of the Great Breathing In:
           Aahh! We praise you.
You of the Great Breathing Out:
           Yes! We thank you.
You who swirl us in your interstellar dust:
           Alleluia! We glorify you!
You who well up your ocean currents in us:
           behold, we serve you.
Hand of all the world’s great migrations:
           Holy One, we trust you.
You who move in threads beneath the roots:
           Beloved, we reach for you.
You who fruit forth in a million varieties:
           we feast on your grace.
You who spark the Life Force in all things:
           we listen for your voice.
You who speak “Let there be light”:
           let us be light.

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
Listen to the audio recording:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:17 — 1.8MB)

Subscribe: Spotify | RSS

It is as if
you came home and there he was,
a stranger sitting in the room meditating.
At first alarmed, then annoyed,
and then resigned, you let him sit,
because he didn’t seem to be doing any harm,
and there was that light.
You never really knew what he was thinking,
but he was smiling, and the room was warm.
After a while you rearranged
some of the furniture around him.
Then you took most of it out,
except for chairs for the people
you invited over, to sit with him.
Later, in your house full of light and mystified guests,
you hardly noticed that he wasn’t there any more,
his smile on a hundred faces.

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
Listen to the audio recording:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:55 — 1.3MB)

Subscribe: Spotify | RSS