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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 23h

Monday Meditatio the sacred Word comes direct to now & to the Eternal Now the Word pushes thru the rival hole, down, beyond…to Centering let no fancy morphology or etymology interfere a simple sacred syllable = logos In the beginning was the Word & the Word was w God & the Word was God. Amen.

mermaid mosaic on the malecon in Guayaquil

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 23h

Monday Lectio (Cloud) "w this word, thou shalt beat on this cloud & this darkness above thee. W this word, thou shall smite down all manner of thought under the cloud of forgetting.

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sunday Meditatio my fav part these sweet words 🌟 I fold my purpose into 1 word & place my intention & calling there too just a syllable w a little meaning & fasten the word to my heart as my shield my sword & spear to prick the cloud of unknowing & refocus my attention on the stillness within. 🌟

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sunday Lectio (Cloud) "& if thee list have this intent lapped & folden in one word, for thou shouldest have better hold thereupon, take thee but a little word of one syllable: for so it is better than of two, for ever the shorter it is the better it accordeth w the work of the Spirit.

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am learning shape-note singing aka sacred harp. I love it. No singing skills required just enthusiasm so I am okay 👍 Just gotta learn the shapes

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Saturday Meditatio Disciple, ur attention pls. Here it is 🪧 in these precise words-- 👉purpose, calling, intent👈 there u have it be intentional abt prayer 🙏 choose the prayer life do the Work lift up ur heart & be willing (if not able) it’s more than sufficient to start w an intention try it now

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Saturday Lectio (Cloud) "Therefore what time tht thou purposest thee to this work, & feelest by grace tht thou art called of God, lift then up thine heart unto God w a meek stirring of love; & mean God tht made thee, & bought thee...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Friday Meditatio AnonMonk be writing straight to me thru time: triggered by a message in mtg my brain get lost in clever theology my body enters a nervous quaking yet all this fancy stuff must be stuffed down 💪 into the cushion of unknowing smite it w o mercy or quarter. 🤺 it’s ego not Love. 🌟

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Friday Lectio (Cloud) "& yet nevertheless the thing tht he said was both good & holy. Yea & so holy tht what man or woman tht weeneth to come to contemplation w o many such sweet meditations of their own wretchedness, the passion, the kindness...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thursday Lectio Disciple, don’t go down the rival hole 😕 don’t see, answer, welcome, intrusive thoughts good or bad, they will turn against u. Put the 1st thought in a bubble fly away 2nd on a leaf float away down a stream 3rd under a stone of forgetting 4th bury in a deep grave & so forth☁️

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thursday Lectio (Cloud) "& there will he let thee see the wonderful kindness of God, & if thou hear him, he careth for nought better. For soon after he will let thee see thine old wretched living, & peradventure in seeing & thinking thereof he will bring to thy mind some place tht thou...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wednesday Meditatio AnonMonk identifies the perpetual rival: thought aka thoughts aka thinking discursive or narrative or semantic (how delicious it is to digress & lose track) ➡️push it all down w a tender smite ➡️tread on it no matter how sweet bc this is not a Meditation on Christ’s Passion.

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wed Lectio (Cloud) "HERE BEGINNETH THE 7th CHAPTER How a man shall have him in this work against all thoughts & specially against all those tht arise of his own curiosity, of cunning & of natural wit. & if any thought rise & will press continually above thee betwixt thee & that darkness...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tuesday Meditatio AnonMonk, some of these word pics are strange to my modern eyes—pierce, smite, dart 🤺 & yet consider sweet cupid’s arrow piercing my heart 💘 striking my mind’s eye 👁️w Love & Desire for union w the Divine in Centering Prayer. so dart away, valentine, w a tranquilizer anesthesia

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tuesday Lectio (Cloud) "& therefore, although it be good sometime to think of the kindness & the worthiness of God in special, & altho it be a light & a part of contemplation: nevertheless yet in this work it shall be cast down & covered w a cloud of forgetting.

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Monday Meditatio Disciple thinking is overrated even abt God it gets u noplace bc the Divine cannot be apprehended w words or concepts 😵‍💫 there is no way to understand, leave wht u think & choose to love wht u cannot think. embrace ur double consciousness: u & ur beLoved fused in ur attention 🌟

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Monday Lectio (Cloud) "HERE BEGINNETH THE SIXTH CHAPTER A short conceit of the work of this book, treated by question. BUT now thou askest me & sayest, “How shall I think on Himself, & what is He?” & to this I cannot answer thee but thus: “I wot not.” "For thou hast brought me w thy question

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday Meditatio thinking abt God in the Centering Work = learning a declension & thinking u are fluent studying a rule but cannot apply it so practice practice 🌟 sinking to the dark center over & over again where u contemplate Love as Love Truth as Truth in the empty stillness no distraction 🤲

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday Lectio (Cloud) "Yea! & if it be courteous & seemly to say, in this work it profiteth little or nought to think of the kindness or the worthiness of God, nor on our Lady, nor on the saints or angels in heaven, nor yet on the joys in heaven...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saturday Meditatio easy for me to get wound up in what-ifs, ands, buts brooding & ruminating on my own mierda filling the nothing w an unholy buzz in my brain feeling unhappy 🥹 instead of attending to the stillest Truth the quietest Word in my heart soul a silentest whisper of Love there always💚

launching a fishing boat, lots of birds in the air

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saturday Lectio (Cloud) "For why? Memory or thinking of any creature that ever God made, or of any of their deeds either, it is a manner of ghostly light: for the eye of thy soul is opened on it & even fixed thereupon...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday Meditatio Centering is arduous Work erasing the World frm ur heart/mind/body 🌟 to be in the temporal now & the Eternal Now together hidden in the darkcenter inside u put aside ur regrets & schemes they have no beeswax in this now/Now be soully devoted, or call it mindfulness, more trendy

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fri Lec Clo "As oft as I say, all th creatures tht ever be made, as oft I mean not only th creatures themselves, but also all th works & th conditions of th same creatures. I take out not 1 creature, whether they be bodily creatures or ghostly, nor yet any condition or work of any creature

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thursday Mediatio In the Work, stay in the liminal overlap 🌟 forget the world (the good of nature & ppl & beauty & the evil of Mad$$Men trumpery ALL) let it all go bc such worldliness hijacks ur heart kidnaps ur soul away from the now/Now violates ur Self, leaving ur rest 🌟 restoration endangered

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thursday Lectio (Cloud) "HERE BEGINNETH THE FIFTH CHAPTER Tht in the time of this word all the creatures tht ever have been, be now, or ever shall be, & all the works of those same creatures, should be hid under the cloud of forgetting. & if ever thou shalt come to this cloud & dwell...

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Stuart Masters @stuartkmasters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The fact that it was easier to think of the kingdom in the other world so as not to have to change this one." Ernesto Cardenal

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wednesday Meditatio Darkness is not a color dark it’s forgetting, innocence. A Cloud cushions the Indwelling & u not a separation or obstacle or shell but a liminal overlap inside u to prevent completely dissolving when knit together in 1 will. u remain a Self fused w Love it's 'there' for u

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wednesday Lectio (Cloud) "& ween not, for I call it a darkness or a cloud, tht it be any cloud congealed of the humors tht flee in the air, nor yet any darkness such as is in thine house on nights when the candle is out. For such a darkness & such a cloud mayest thou...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tuesday Meditatio The work is simple, don’t make it crazy, for the sake of Divine Love, Disciple, don’t lose ur way in ideas & expectations Let go of words & sink into the truest Word where a dark Cloud unknows unlearns u leave hate/fear & Mad$$Men trumpery Instead welcome blessed grace & Light

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tuesday Lectio (Cloud) “Insomuch, that unless God of His great goodness shew His merciful miracle & make him soon to leave work, & meek him to counsel of proved workers, he shall fall either into frenzies, or else into other great mischiefs of ghostly sins & devils’ deceits; thru the...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday Meditatio Like many adepts of the Work, AnonMonk warns against thinking ur way to heaven. Arguers & theologizers deceive u w fancy words but they’re professors or even trolls, ignorant in their bones heart soul space. Seek the Light & don’t try figure things out in words. Just the Word.

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday Lectio (Cloud) "For whoso heareth this work either be read or spoken of, & weeneth that it may, or should, be come to by travail in their wits, & therefore they sit & seek in their wits how that it may be, & in this curiosity...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday Meditatio Disciple, the obstacle is tht the love of inventing clever ideas in worship but thy ego-notions arise not frm humble Spirit tenderly carefully look away & seek the loving dark envelope where the spark of Light or stirring takes thee to the unknowing center in thy heartsoulbody

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday Lectio (Cloud) "& here may men shortly conceive the manner of this working, & clearly know that it is far from any fantasy, or any false imagination or quaint opinion: the which be brought in, not by such a devout & a meek blind stirring of love...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saturday Meditatio rest in the cloud awareness & forget to think thy own 'now' fades into the Eternal Now & knits together then oops thy mind again perceives recalls plans don’t frustrate, just rest in the cloud ☁️ again forget, be in the now/Now & stay as long as th can before the next 🌟 oops 🌟

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saturday Lectio (Cloud) "...& yet in 1 stirring of all these, he may have suddenly & perfectly forgotten all created thing. But fast after each stirring, for corruption of the flesh, it falleth down again to some thought..."

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday Meditatio happening now in centering prayer & worship: each flip of the switch from ur discursive brain to the Cloud of Unknowing is a stirring or spark of Light. each hour the number of sparks is marvelous & each time stay a little longer in the Cloud darkness, where the Rest is. 🙏🙏🙏

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday Lectio (Cloud) "& therefore take heed to this work, & to the marvellous manner of it within in thy soul. For if it be truly conceived, it is but a sudden stirring, & as it were unadvised, speedily springing unto God...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thursday Meditatio Disciple, ur tiny nanosecond of now is all u can offer to the vast Eternal Now so take ur meager gift of time in both hands & extend it to the universe w gratitude & grace. Each moment is worth thinking about. how to love more how to be more present how to rest in perfect Rest

an exotic parrot kind of bird in El Puyo.

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thursday Lectio (Cloud) "But of one thing I warn thee amongst all other. I cannot see who may truly challenge community thus w JESUS & His just Mother, His high angels & also w His saints; but if he be such an one...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am looking forward to attending this program on Embodied Quakerism and Continuing Revelation pendlehill.org/programs/190...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wednesday Meditatio The foundation of the Eternal Now is Love/Loving manifested in all things in all places in all beings. Time weaves thru the Great Feminine timepiece mystical angels, faithful foremothers our cosmic clock turns & tolls by the Light of Christ. Knit thee to it & keep in time

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wednesday Lectio (Cloud) "Knit thee therefore to Him, by love and by belief, & then by virtue of that knot thou shalt be common perceiver w Him, & w all that by love so be knitted unto Him: that is to say, w our Lady Saint Mary that full was of all grace in keeping of time...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please join me to practice Lectio Divina using Howard Thurman's prose-poem The Great Incarnate Word. Wednesday 4 November - Wednesday 25 November 2026 The live Zoom sessions are at 18:30-20:30 (UK time) every Wednesday. www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/lect...

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Lectio Divina and the Great Incarnate Word - Woodbrooke

This course invites us to internalise nonviolent resistance by practising Lectio Divina (sacred reading) with a text rich in courage, compassion, and faith: Howard Thurman's prose-poem The Great Incar...

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuesday Meditatio here’s a simple theology—the Light of Christ (Love) is both divine (cosmic) & incarnated (body) Divine = the Eternal Now embodied = my tiny nanosecond of now it's christopresentism or celestial inhabitation or that of God within & that’s salvation, redemption, free & clear real

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuesday Lectio (Cloud) "Right well hast thou said, for the love of JESUS. For in the love of JESUS; there shall be thine help. Love is such a power, that it maketh all thing common. Love therefore JESUS; & all thing that He hath, it is thine. He by His Godhead is maker & giver of time.

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday Meditatio Disciple consults AnonMonk abt religious scrupulosity: obsession-- 'i was bad & don’t deserve grace. i will be weak & slow later too' -- his self-loathing is his ‘sin’ -- #sosad selfish delusion but he calls on the Light of Christ for self-love self-forgiveness. a gift of grace

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Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday Lectio (Cloud) "But sorrowfully thou sayest now, 'How shall I do? & sith this is thus that thou sayest, how shall I give account of each time severally; I that have unto this day, now of four & twenty years age, never took heed of time?

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