It's a New Day

Spring is just around the corner. The sound of backup alarms has resumed outside my window as the construction crews take up where they left off before winter slammed in. Oh, for some peace and quiet. That's okay. When my next job starts, I won't be home to hear it and it will all be over soon.

I've been hearing a lot of buzz about a new movie and book called The Secret. Oprah featured it on her show a couple of times, and it's been in my email from a number of sources. It's about changing your life by changing your thinking. That's nothing new. I've been talking about it for years. So has Dr. Ernest Holmes, founder of the Church of Religious Science. He published a book in 1938 called The Science of Mind. If you don't like the way your life is going, change your mind.
It's based on a metaphysical principle: thoughts are things, they have power, they go out and do work for us. That's what prayer is. Every thought we send out is a prayer whether we know it or not.

To Pray

to think is to pray

to speak is to pray out loud

to shout is to pray out loud

with feeling

to sing,

ah, to sing

to sing is to pray out loud

with all your heart

I wrote that over twelve years ago, while attending a metaphysical church. The key to the process is finding out who we really are and what it is we are meant todo in this life. Only then can we figure out what it is we really want.

Name

We all have a name

even the least among us

and if you don’t know it

the world can tell you

but you must listen
You can hear it

in the rhapsody of morning

when the earth turns away

from the darkness

to face the bright star

You can hear your name

when the wind stirs the trees

and the birds

wake each other from their slumber

You can hear your name

as the small stream

wends its way

over and around the rocks

and tree roots burbling

It is trying to have a conversation with you

You can find your name

in a quiet pool of water

reflecting sky and passing clouds

as it patiently waits for you

push your thoughts below the surface

You can hear your name

along the high canyon walls

where pine trees shelter scolding jays

the mountain speaks your name

It calls to you

challenges you

invites you to walk in beauty

And now the shameless plug:

I have two poetry chapbooks for sale:

Crow Dreaming

Gray to the Ground

The price is $10 each, or 2 for $15. Shipping in the U.S. is $2.00 for 1- 2 books.

You can initiate an order by sending me an email at edw.hanson@netzero.com

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or

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Ed Hanson

7630 Leyden Lane

Commerce City, CO 80022

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