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    On Making Love: Spiritual Testimony to the Gift Life Is.
    On Making Love: Spiritual Testimony to the Gift Life Is.
    On Making Love: Spiritual Testimony to the Gift Life Is.
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    On Making Love: Spiritual Testimony to the Gift Life Is.

    By Jim Young

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    Spiritual poetry

    ON MAKING LOVE: Spiritual Testimony to the Gift Life Is., is the eighth book in Jim Young's MY SPIRITUAL AWARENESS SERIES. This book of spiritual inference, expressed in the form of poetic verse, depicts some of the many ways of seeing life through spiritual eyes. For those on a spiritual venture who wish to plunge the depths to deeper meaning, this devout collection can awaken you to the inherent awareness of the perfection of Being you really are. Indeed, these verses can be revered as contemplative nourishment, the proverbial Word that speaks to the reader within, at the seat of Truth for each. Read and listen carefully for the resonance you will surely hear-and take this resonance as sure evidence that you, too, are a divine, spiritual being.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 7, 2008
    ISBN9780595606672
    On Making Love: Spiritual Testimony to the Gift Life Is.
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    Jim Young

    Jim Young served 23 years in the Army and after retiring, he became an ordained minister. He has been a pastor and a hospice chaplain. Jim and his wife Kathy live in Show Low, Arizona. They have 3 children, 7 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild.

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      On Making Love - Jim Young

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      JIM YOUNG’S WEBSITE

      www.creationspirit.net This website contains additional

      creations to come through Jim Young, including other

      books and, eventually, collector-quality photography.

      Speaking services and classes dealing with his writings

      are also available. Contact: dimitrios@

      creationspirit.com.

      Truth is found within ourselves, it takes no rise

      From outward things, whate’er you may believe.

      There is an inmost centre in us all

      Where truth abides in fullness; and around

      Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,

      The perfect clear perception—which is truth.

      A baffling and perverting carnal mesh

      Binds it, and makes all error: and to KNOW

      Rather consists in opening out a way

      Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape

      Than in effecting entry for a light

      Supposed to be without.

      —Browning, in "Paracelsus

      Acknowledgments

      I hereby acknowledge, with deep gratitude, the creation

      spirit that quickens my soul in the awareness of the

      Truth of my Being. As well, the discipline of surrender

      to its expression that propels such renderings into the

      Universe for whatever divine purpose they might serve.

      My thanks, too, for the beautiful country of Mexico

      and the loving nature of its people, especially the innocence of the young girl who graces the cover with her

      message of Truth.

      Also, I am ever-grateful to family and friends, as well

      as readers of other works to have come through my

      heart, for their abiding support and loving ways. May

      loyalty to the Truth of your Being be your trust, always.

      Jim Young

      Introduction

      I’d like to introduce this body of spiritual imagery first

      in the form of a brief story, one which describes how I

      sometimes find myself answering the mostly superficial

      query, And what do you do? (for a living, implied). I

      often answer with the simple truth: "I make love all

      day." Permit me to explain. Please!

      Several years ago I was visiting Santa Fe NM to

      house-sit for some friends, and I found myself involved

      in a breakfast meeting a photographer friend of mine

      had invited me to participate in. During a break in the

      meeting one of the participants asked me if I was planning to attend the reading of one translator’s rendering

      of Rumi’s poetry the next evening. I allowed that I

      hadn’t seen that he was going to perform, but would

      love to attend, because I often feasted on Rumi’s heart

      renderings. Oh, said she, "it’s all sold out, but I think I

      can find you a few tickets if you really want to attend.

      I’m on the board that’s sponsoring the event, so just let

      me know and I’ll see what I can do." I quickly

      approached a friend and he immediately affirmed his

      like desire. I then called a couple from nearby Jemez

      Springs and asked if they would like to join us. The man

      of the house excitedly responded in the affirmative, but

      his wife sadly declined, as she had another engagement

      and could not.

      To make a very long story short, the three of us

      attended this marvelous event, and enjoyed it thoroughly. The author read his translations while a drummer, cellist, and dancer accompanied him in

      breathtaking fashion. It was a real love-in from my

      point of view. And

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