Making It Sacred...

                                       Making it sacred... but, isn't it already?

​The obviousness of isn't it already is lost to most politicians, economists, religionists, and yes, to most of the rest of us... but to the very honest teenager, looking forward into a future of Planetary eco-destruction, isn't it already is a rEvolutionary insight... And given that most adults are cowards, it leaves us unmotivated to much of anything: which is exactly what conspicuous consumption is all about... we are addicts to a culture of rabid nonsense...

​Isn't it already is the rEvolution of the Word made flesh... Flesh, not pristine air, not raging fire, but animal... but human... To be human is to be of the Earth, of the Earth, and only then, of the Spirit... Flesh births soul / spirit / consciousness: flesh is the vehicle for the self-realization of Primal Oneness... of the Word that issues forth from the Primal Source... Word of Time and Space... Word of sacred Place... Word Here and Now... Isn't it already means something...

​Here is a version of the Word according to Wendell Berry: We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do. We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make... The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do... We can read Jesus' Parable of the Good Black Panther, the Good Illegal Immigrant, or the Good Samaritan (take your pick) and still refuse to change... But, the very honest teenager sees (and knows)...

​We fucking do not believe in the Word made flesh...

And so we stay the same...

​Isn't it already sees the sparrow and knows that it is sacred: sees a cow in a field and knows that it is sacred: sees a naked human body and wants to believe that it is sacred, too... but we adults let thousands of kids die of hunger and malnutrition every day: we build for profit weapons of mass destruction: we prioritize gun rights over children: we enjoy the profits of oil at the cost of the hundreds of species that slide into extinction every day... and on and on... On every level we live lives of proof that the human body is not sacred: we make children and don't actually revere them enough to adore the Word made flesh in them!!! We shop the grocery stores, malls, and internet in a stunning dullness of proof that the bodies, souls, and spirits of our children are fundamentally meaningless: certainly not the Word made flesh...

So, making it Sacred is about making change... if not for us adults, then at least for our children and for the children they will have: and the Word made flesh is our starting point. And the Word is not a demand. Neither is it a correct belief. Rather, it is a declaration of intention: We give our word, we announce our sacred intention, to live in such a way that we will make a kind and good human future possible: we dedicate our flesh, for the remainder of our days, to this sacred cause... We, too, might look out upon the sparrow and the cow as sacred, as integral, to the interconnectivity of all life on this precious blue Planet...

​Heretofore, religion has seduced too many of us into belief (the easy path), instead of love in action... It is true, as Dostoevsky wrote, Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams... Love in action is the harsh and dreadful realization that we, all along, have been walking the path of global suicide in our cowardice, our policies, and our consumptive lust... But the teenager is pleading: Will you not wake up from your horrible dream, for our sake, if not for your own? Will you not save this Planet, our Home?

​And the Word was made flesh... is the option we can choose... or not...