Reverence for Life
Good morning to you all. Reverence for Life is a topic that I feel members here at Interfaith live, each in our different ways, by thoughts, words, energy, and actions in the world. Each of us a different thread in the fabric of life woven together in a beautiful luminous tapestry of Creation.
I am not a famous speaker. I am not wise beyond my being to be speaking about the topic of Reverence for Life. But what I am is one of those threads in that beautiful luminous tapestry of creation. One who has a reverent connection to the divine magnificence of Holy One, so in Love with all of Her creation, that I am in deep reverence to all that is. So, in that form…I can speak to you today. A luminous thread, a part of the All.
A Luminous Thread that is our
higher selves, our core spirit, our soul, our essence
however you call it that does not have a name
that is a loved part of and birthed forth from
Holy One; our Holy Mother & Father into this realm,
as a part of the fabric and family of Creation
as a part of the luminous tapestry of all Creation
that is created and connected and
loved in the deepest of ways
to have unlimited opportunities to be in awe of All that is
to be in Reverence to all that is.
Us all as Luminous Threads.
In fact, I believe that Reverence is the natural state of Being to be in connection to All that, to be in Awe of All that, to be grateful for All that is.
I believe that in every spiritual tradition, at its core, there is a reverence of life and all of creation. And I hope that we all are moved when in communion with nature or at the sight of a newborn baby’s outreached arms wanting to embrace this life or in the quiet of meditation.
But could it be that living in the world at this time, we have forgotten the feeling of reverence, or have not been in contact with this feeling for so long……
that it is a whisper of a memory?
Perhaps reverence is a forgotten virtue from the ancient past. Perhaps it is an old aspect or emotion or a pattern that dates back thousands of years, 100s of thousands of years- that lived in ceremonies and rituals and the hearts of spirituality. And maybe now in the heart of each of us… is sleeping? Perhaps dreaming? Waiting to awake.
So how do we remember reverence in a world that is affected by violence and indifference? Perhaps one of the ways would be to be in communion with nature, breathing with our Spirit, or by seeing life thru the eyes of a Mystic or expressing creativity or experiencing life like a child.
In an attempt to describe my feelings about Reverence which I think of as Awe, I have written the following poem. Words never quite get there for me but my energy, The Energy, was there when this was written, in a forest sitting by an ancient Cedar tree.
Reverence……
To be in the state of reverence
in communion with Creator,
In awe of Her creation…...of all that is
To feel our connection…...of all that is,
To feel our hearts…............beat together,
To feel the Spirit that exists…...........together,
To feel the Heart of earth beating....together,
The Heart of creation beating
Together..................together...............together
In one form, as one form, merging into All of that.
To be awe of the miracle of the smallest particle in space, or
The infinite intelligence of the cells of our body or
The beauty of a Flower petal or
The birth of a star or
The voice of a bird …………and then
To feel this Holy Family
That we all are..........we all are..........we all are as
One Reverent Spirit
To know that we are in a relationship
with everything together,
Blessed by opportunities to love and honor and care for Earth, her body, and all forms of life found here and in other realms,
and the galaxies, the universe, the multiverse,
the multidimensions.
By our spirit, energy, thoughts, prayers, words, and deeds.
Reverence for life,
Reverence for creation,
Reverence for all that is
Feels like Divinity washing over me in a flood
So deeply touched by the reverence of All
That my heart bursts open…............yet again
To have the immensity of it all pouring in,
The beauty of it all pouring in,
The mathematical synchronicity of it all pouring in
to absolute overflow!
And to once again know,
that we-are-all-One,
We are all One family
connected in a cosmic dance,
In a web of life,
In a universal cord,
In a luminous tapestry
In an emergence of energy and light,
In a mathematical equation of divine love
In a multi-dimensional canvas of the multiverse,
Birthed in a Reverence so deep and wide and intense
That there must be another word,
That there must be a phrase,
There must be a brush stroke,
There must be a musical chord
Another way to describe this state.
This state of being that is union, that is all, that is Divine.
Love.
Thank you.