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    The Meaning
    The Meaning
    The Meaning
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    The Meaning

    By Steve Taylor

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    The experiential core of Steve Taylor's best-selling books on spirituality and psychology.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateJul 27, 2012
    ISBN9781780993041
    The Meaning
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    Steve Taylor

    Steve Taylor is the founding pastor of Graceway Baptist Church (www.graceway.org.nz), in Ellerslie, New Zealand. He is completing a PhD on the emerging church and has a Masters in Theology in communicating the cross in a postmodern world. Steve receives requests to supply spirituality resources and to speak in UK and US.

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      Book preview

      The Meaning - Steve Taylor

      Experience

      The Trick

      The trick is to trust yourself

      not to try to trap your prey

      or seduce your lover

      If you feel frustrated

      the animal will scent your anxiety

      and veer away

      your lover will sense your desperation

      and spurn you

      Your soul is delicate

      you can’t shake and squeeze her

      or scrape her sides

      for a few last crumbs of insight

      She needs time to collect herself

      to gather her dissipated power

      Too much force will break the mould

      of invisible patterns and potentials

      which give birth to beauty

      She may seem barren now

      but she’s not dead, only sleeping

      New life is slowly seeping through

      from that deep underground source

      making her moist and rich again

      until she’s ready to release

      strange new joys

      Your soul has never let you down

      and never will

      as long as you are patient

      as long as you are still.

      The Meaning

      You can’t explain the meaning

      Reduce it to thought or confine it to words

      Break it down to basic building blocks

      Or trace it back to an origin.

      But when you see the meaning, you know it.

      Just when you’ve forgotten it existed

      You’re driving along the motorway

      and turn your head to the side

      As if someone’s tapped your shoulder

      And it’s there, stretched across the evening sky

      Filling the spaces between the clouds.

      You open the door to empty the bin

      And it’s there, rustling with the wind through the trees

      Stroking your face softly like a lover.

      You tilt your head back to catch the rain

      And it’s there, falling with the infinite silver points

      Bringing down benevolence from the sky.

      Your eyes spring open in the middle of the night

      As if there’s an intruder, an unfamiliar noise

      And it’s there - in the dense, rich darkness that fills the room

      And the glow of unconscious communion that envelopes you and your lover.

      The most familiar forgotten place

      Your home from a previous lifetime

      A mother’s soothing presence

      And her warm enfolding arms.

      Forget the Past

      Forget the past

      It’s just a dream you keep alive by dreaming

      A bubble that wants to hit the ground and burst

      But which you keep afloat by thinking.

      The past is only a tail

      You keep dragging behind you

      Collecting dust and dirt

      Until it’s so heavy with bitterness and regret

      It stops you moving forward.

      You don’t have to sit there and watch

      While the scenes of your past play back

      The tragi-comedy of your life

      Simmering with hurt and envy

      Shuddering with embarrassment

      Stabbing yourself with pangs of regret.

      There is no past

      There are only memories of events

      And every memory is refracted through

      A hall of mental mirrors

      Until whatever once was true

      Dissipates and disappears

      Like vapour trails fading in the sky.

      So cut the tail, and cut the tale

      Turn the mental projector off

      Don’t strain

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