MAKING LOVE...

...is flashing the twinkle in my eye
when I see the humor
in Life's offerings
as the Truth
it many times is.

MAKING LOVE...

...is viewing Life
from the seat of wisdom
flowing as the Truth
intuition most naturally is.

MAKING LOVE...

...is practicing yoga
as an exercise of mind and spirit
leading to the power of Truth
and the flexibility
of Truth's expression.

MAKING LOVE...

...is finding myself
in the mind of death
focusing on the dark dank house
from which I'll then
be seeing Life
suddenly awaking
to the Truth
that instead
my ashes will be gilded in God
as manna for re-generations.

MAKING LOVE...

...is practicing the wisdom
of solitude
letting matter chatter and endless claptrap
lay fallow in the fields
of self-indulgence
favoring in transformation
the simplicity
of the here and now:
the Truth only silence speaks.

MAKING LOVE...

...is realizing intuition
is the divine feminine within
releasing me from the perceived need
of having to define my inner Truth
through the feminine without.

MAKING LOVE...

...is looking in Life's mirror
seeing that I'm looking like
a walking unmade bed
with nothing
but layers of lumps
on a field of wrinkles
and understanding that's not
my real identity.

MAKING LOVE...

...is allowing myself to feel the fullness
of separation's paradox:
sitting naked on a desert cactus
with a bowl of chocolate truffles in my lap
knowing instinctively
that on the other side of excruciating pain
lies absolute ecstasy.

MAKING LOVE...

...is never having to say
I make love all day
and just Being it.

© Jim Young, 2008

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jim Young, who exercised an early retirement option to pursue his art and spiritual interests, is a published, award-winning writer, poet and documentary/fine art photographer who has received grants and gifts for support of his art, some of which is found in institutional and private collections nationally. His photographic images are exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Young is a graduate of the ecumenical School for Spiritual Directors at the Pecos Benedictine Monastery (NM), and served as the monastery’s first lay director of public relations and fund-raising, where he initiated an extensive religious arts program. Basically a metaphysician who labels himself as an orthodox eclectic, he also has availed himself of numerous holistic healing intensive programs and is a Reiki, Christian Science and Holographic Repatterning practitioner in addition to serving as a spiritual director. The author of a dozen spiritual manuscripts, he is a lifetime student of spirituality and its implications for reframing life’s journey, especially from one of separation and the pain separation engenders, to one of Oneness, and the inner joy and peace that infills from this perspective. Dr. Young is a gifted inspirational speaker who often uses life’s parables to convey spiritual meaning, and inspires others to look within for the Truth that can transcend the superficial.

Jim has just published three books in a new "My Spiritual Awareness" series: The Creation Spirit; A Labor of Love; and Keys to the Door of Truth. All are available through his personal website, Barnes and Noble, or your favorite bookstore. Visit him online at http://creationspirit.net, or email him at dimitrios@creationspirit.net.