"Teach me to be a child. Walk me the ways of the wild.
Give me a dream of dreaming crystal blue and gold.
Give me a seagull's wings. Tell me the soul of all things,
Give me an open hand and watch the sky unfold"

I have just returned from a "BLISS-FUL" week at this year's "Sacred Arts" Camp
[in the Chiltern Hills, Oxfordshire] which I would thoroughy recommend...
http://www.sacredartscamp.org

...so it appropriate that these words from a meditation DVD by the duet "BLISS"
are striking a chord with me. You can hear the full song and view an
inspirational message, plus scenes from the educational outreach project that it
helps to finance, on U-tube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAp7n5qg-Y8

The DVD - "From Bliss with Love" - is available on their website, but much
cheaper on Amazon...
http://www.Amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007OC6XI/sunflowerheal-21

This song is called "Open" - a prayer to the divine. The full lyrics are...
-----oOo-----

I see the smallest things, I feel the rawest things,
I'd like to open my mind and give my thoughts to you.
The perfect summer's day, the way I lost my way,
All of the secrets deep in rooms hidden from view.
All of the lies I saw and thought they were the truth
I know I was wrong, now I.....

Open my eyes and I see you standing there
Open my heart and I feel you resting there
Open my mind, give me something I can share
Open my love let it shine on all despair.

Teach me to be a child. Walk me the ways of the wild.
Give me a dream of dreaming crystal blue and gold.
Give me a seagull's wings. Tell me the soul of all things,
Give me an open hand and watch the sky unfold.
Every desire I have, I'll gladly give away, if you just.....

Open my eyes, let me I see you standing there
Open my heart, let me feel you resting there
Open my mind, give me something I can share
Open my love let it shine, let it shine.

-----oOo-----

This is the first Bliss DVD and features some of their best loved songs plus a
collection of inspiring and moving short films & visual meditation journeys,
intended to "...soothe the soul and return you to peace".

In their introduction to the DVD, Bliss say....

"Imagine a silent world at dawn..."

"As the sun comes up over the lake you are touched by the miracle of being
alive, by the wonder and perfection of nature. Slowly you become aware of your
own heart as a place of infinite love. You are at peace, you have returned to
your true self."

"Friends of Bliss were inspired to create visual journeys to accompany their
music. They weren't experts, they read manuals in their lunch hours and then
practiced at night. At the weekends they took their cameras out into the world
and filmed people and nature. What you have here is a collection of films made
with love and guided by faith."

"A powerful tool for healing and meditation."

The tracks on the DVD are:

- Blissful Intro
- Spring
- Be Who You Were Born To Be
- Child
- The Only One
- Open
- The Love Within
- Breathe
- Love Peace and Wisdom
- The Deep
- The Outreach Project