I’ve walked among trees and planted some seeds over the Mother’s Day Weekend.
We are living into the death throes of Wetiko.
We are living into the Götterdämmerung of our current global civilization.
We are also living into The Great Come What May — the ongoing process of creation which we do not control, and which does not center us in the universe.
We are blossoms on the flower of the eternal Living Tree.
We touch eternity in every moment.
We are one with the Living Tree forever.
We belong and are beloved forever.
Thank you for reminding us of Mother Earth’s overflowing gift of life. May we be grateful, and give ourselves away in every moment.
Only love makes the suffering bearable.
We have recently moved through Earth Day, May Day, and Mother’s Day within the Götterdämmerung.
The Impossible House of Love will go on tending, mending, healing, and generating new life forever. Mother Earth has made our impossible lives viable, and has birthed and nurtured us all along the way as you say.
At every moment, it is simply a miracle that we do not simply disintegrate into dust.
And yet here we are.
As always, your questions, prayer and spiritual exercise today really get to the heart of who we are called to be in this time and the even. Larger nesting of the great Come What May.
I try to look at it this way: the Earth and its natural beauty and resources are gifts to us all, the presence and opportunities for connection with others are gifts to us all. We can reciprocate with our own gifts of kindness, respect and fairness.
One of my daughters gave me a beautiful handmade Mothers Day card yesterday with a bird perched in a flowering tree on the front. I knew immediately that this card now remains on continual display as a reminder that every day is cause to remember the ever returning life that holds us in Her embrace.
Everything else will forever exist, indifferent to our grasp, reasoning, or attempts to tame it. The closest I’ve come to an economical phrasing is from an old translation of the Tao Te Ching: the Tao is older than God.
When I see my dog shake off after a rainy walk, I imagine the earth doing the exact same thing over a span of time our brightest minds cannot fathom. And it will do so again. We navel-gaze simply to carve out a place for ourselves in the DNA of existence. But creation doesn't rely on us; it doesn't need us. Yet, here we are.
My best guess is that Creation isn't amused by us because it doesn't consider us. It can't be indifferent because it has never been attentive. It's only when we choose to notice Creation that we realize how timeless it is without us.
I wonder if we are living into our last summer.
I’ve walked among trees and planted some seeds over the Mother’s Day Weekend.
We are living into the death throes of Wetiko.
We are living into the Götterdämmerung of our current global civilization.
We are also living into The Great Come What May — the ongoing process of creation which we do not control, and which does not center us in the universe.
We are blossoms on the flower of the eternal Living Tree.
We touch eternity in every moment.
We are one with the Living Tree forever.
We belong and are beloved forever.
Thank you for reminding us of Mother Earth’s overflowing gift of life. May we be grateful, and give ourselves away in every moment.
Only love makes the suffering bearable.
We have recently moved through Earth Day, May Day, and Mother’s Day within the Götterdämmerung.
The Impossible House of Love will go on tending, mending, healing, and generating new life forever. Mother Earth has made our impossible lives viable, and has birthed and nurtured us all along the way as you say.
At every moment, it is simply a miracle that we do not simply disintegrate into dust.
And yet here we are.
As always, your questions, prayer and spiritual exercise today really get to the heart of who we are called to be in this time and the even. Larger nesting of the great Come What May.
Only love makes the suffering bearable.
Only love makes Heaven on Earth in each moment.
Heaven is the ability to love.
After this, I don’t need to comment further!
Thank you!
I try to look at it this way: the Earth and its natural beauty and resources are gifts to us all, the presence and opportunities for connection with others are gifts to us all. We can reciprocate with our own gifts of kindness, respect and fairness.
Gifts shared ne’er fall short...
seeds become plants, or compost.
Gaia, grace gift best!
One of my daughters gave me a beautiful handmade Mothers Day card yesterday with a bird perched in a flowering tree on the front. I knew immediately that this card now remains on continual display as a reminder that every day is cause to remember the ever returning life that holds us in Her embrace.
No better mother
for us all, sisters, brothers...
Kind like no other!
...
On this planet, life.
Nature, nurturing parent,
talented teacher.
Thank You for mothering us with this reflection....just breath.
Everything else will forever exist, indifferent to our grasp, reasoning, or attempts to tame it. The closest I’ve come to an economical phrasing is from an old translation of the Tao Te Ching: the Tao is older than God.
When I see my dog shake off after a rainy walk, I imagine the earth doing the exact same thing over a span of time our brightest minds cannot fathom. And it will do so again. We navel-gaze simply to carve out a place for ourselves in the DNA of existence. But creation doesn't rely on us; it doesn't need us. Yet, here we are.
My best guess is that Creation isn't amused by us because it doesn't consider us. It can't be indifferent because it has never been attentive. It's only when we choose to notice Creation that we realize how timeless it is without us.
Thank you 🙏
You and Richard Rohr are wonderful beacons for my life. Thank you so much.