We are, each and all, wayfarers upon a precious blue Planet...
A question of some importance is simply how to keep from stumbling or from settling down into an inertia of will and grace: and yet, on the other hand, it is precisely by breaking that "the light gets in"... Our struggles can be so earnest -- until the vacuum of life sucks our spirit and courage dry... It is at this point that the slick politician or religious zealot can begin to wield unfortunate influence... The wayfarers map begins with a brief word of counsel: You are wholly holy! Everything is One! This counsel would have us look first to our heart for wisdom guidance: the life and spirit that is within will never abandon us! We have the capacity for co-creation with the Divine: if we are "wholly holy and everything is One" then every moment becomes pregnant with possibilities, and we, in the words of Meister Eckhart, can give birth to G-d! World spiritualities have never before been so available to access as tools for use on our journey... Our experiences are the words of Divinity seeking our self-revelation in this Universe... Our daily life: with its work, play, music, poetry, art, building, greening, loving, sexing, birthing, sharing, praying, adoring, and all else that makes up the sum total of our days and nights is Holy Scripture! Moment-by-moment we encounter the Divine, Life, Grace, and Goodness that is One: by living, by loving, by all that we experience in wonder and surrender, we steadily awaken into that which is and that which is always becoming... We cultivate the myths by which we live every time we please our lover in sex, kindness, and justice: when theories of Spirit become, instead, the taste living on our tongues, we will still certainly slip and tumble and break our skin or shatter our hearts: but those breaks and shatterings will transform into song and voice... The wayfaring -- from which there is no alternative -- is our daily lives: there is no holy place or time that is more holy or sacred than your time and your place: you make it holy by your consciousness expanding into the limitlessness of compassion, pleasure, beauty, and justice: this is the artist's life, the poet's work, the musician's song, and the rEvolution of the Divine into Human and the Human into the Divine: G-d discovering G-d in, with, and through us!
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AuthorRobert Daniel Smith was privileged to serve the homeless and marginalized for 30 years in California. He is living now almost within shouting distance of the Twin Cities. He is a poet, artist, writer, and long-time Companion of the Way still dreaming... Archives
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