Author name: MaryBeth Scalice

Dear Teachers of God, Do not let that title fool you.  We who are teachers are learners.  We are learning unlearning.  We are unlearning all we learned about who we are, and what God is, and how we should live.  We are little kids who left the classroom of the world for a little while […]

Dear Hearts,In my meditation this week, I brought to Jess my thoughts about teachers of God, and the mistakes we make, sometimes clobbering those who have come vulnerably into our circles, using spiritual principles that deny or neglect their cry for help.  Absolute Truth can be used for ego’s purpose, a means to negate others

I don’t want to wake up, but I have to…What kind of opening is that?It is a statement of ignorance not wanting to give way.I breathe and stretch and rise from my mattress.  It is my thoughts at four am. that come for me; come from a rolling unrest somewhere deep inside The hours of

Dear Hearts,I sat on my meditation couch this morning itching to dig into the day’s affairs.Breathing through the pressure, I felt the energy of my body pumping, my haunches poised like a runner at the start line, waiting for the signal to bolt. By grace, I mustered a bit of patience. The will to stay

Dear Heart,I have meditated.I have come to the deck at the back of the house.I am aware that I carry a thin puff of an old belief,as If a crushed cigarette continues to waft smoke into clear mind,just a little ribbon of gray spiraling up from somewhere,the residue of a habit I thought I had

The Fattest Person on Earth     I found you Adonai.You walked in the wildflowersof my Beloved’s Sacred Heart.You danced in the waterfallsof Mary’s smiling eyes,a light there lusciousto my soul long famished,a meal complete,a formless feast of Love.When I saw mySelf againI had gained ten pounds.I hope now to becomethe fattest person on earth. My, oh my,how a

Dear Hearts, I am opened this morning to the exceptional love of Miri Magdalene.   Master of relationship, Miri immersed her heart in a holy instant without limit. Joined with Jesus, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, she realized and demonstrated the true Love of God on earth. Their relationship was unbound by bodies, unframed

Dear Hearts,On hot and humid days, a fiery poem gives me reprieve, somehow feeling like the coolest place in the world. Is there such a sweet spring inside you? The Sacred Heart of Jesus is that place, A Sun that belongs to you.Would you venture close letting him melt your protected life into a cool clear

Dear Hearts,   All of us know the caress of water.  Before the sprouting of hands and feet we floated in a womb of fluid softness, baptized before we saw the world’s light. Hidden there in water, indwelling, soothed by the murmur of our mother’s swirling blood we took form. We were held in innocence,

Dear Hearts, … all things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God  ACIM WB 328   Waking in my Sleep The mind walks. 2:30 it is.  Sleep walking without feet. But then day or night I amble the invisible path.   It isn’t legs at all that carry one