Rhythms in the Life Journey
“You visit the earth and water it, your greatly enrich it….”
A songwriter announces his/her belief
In the Creator’s springtime goodness
--Psalm 65: 9
This week we’ve looked at a number of various passages in the life journey. Children are born, children complete a school year, youth graduate from high school and college, weddings are celebrated, and death visits us. These rhythms come to us because Holy Presence visits us and our lives are enriched. It seems fitting, as we come to the end of a week, to think about those difficult rhythms of adulthood (healing moments and moments of passage into eternal spaces). A meditation by Elias Amidon:
Friend, you lie quiet, watching the dawn light color your heart,
Dreaming of healing for your hurt body, laying there unanswerable to your will.
You breathe deep and your breath has two sides: inside and outside.
You are on both, being breathed.
The future approaches. You will heal or you will go back to being God.
Which will you do?
Oh by all that is beautiful—may it be that you live!
May your body heal happy and whole! May energy fill and delight you!
May we join the dance your presence gives. May you live!
And if you die? Oh dear self, by all that is beautiful,
Know you are Safe! Everything is All Right Forever and Ever and Ever!
The most wonderful, exquisite, familiar truth is what is True, and welcomes you.
It will be very easy.
You lie quiet now, praying. A great healing is coming and you want to be ready.
The colors of your heart blend with the light of the morning and
YOU ARE BLESSED!
Have a good weekend!
Ben Keckler
05.30.08
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