today’s pilgrimage on the eve of election, (yes, i’m hearing on the eve of destruction and quickly transmuting it to the eve of construction) is a day of transition between pilgrimages… returning from standing rock with a day’s breather before taking off the next day for machu picchu – thanks very much to pilgrim friends who are carrying me in our one heart, that same one heart where i carry you in every moment and with every breath… thank you ee cummings for this poem of one heartedness…
strangely enough on this eve of election, i feel deep joy welling in me and truly a peace passing all understanding with a strong knowing that all is well whatever it is…
do you also feel the dream of the new world awakening? a dream as old as the mountains and hills… a dream that that will take all the love we can give… a dream alive at standing rock and all the other standing rocks all over the world… a dream of honoring our mother the earth and her waters of life and the air we breathe… a dream of re-membering the meek, the peaceful inherit the earth and share oneness with all our relations… one love, one cosmos, one family re-joy-sing that in this moment we are free…
many years ago, i began saying a little mantra that serendipitously returned today…
happy are we, healthy are we, (w)hol(l)y are we
thousandfold thanks for blessing the cosmos with peace
happy are we, healthy are we, (w)hol(l)y are we
thousandfold thanks for blessing the cosmos with peace
i’ll open this peace circle ever wider with Jane Goodall’s song of peace…
We pray to the great Spiritual Power in which
we live and move and have our being.
We pray that we may at all times
keep our minds open to new ideas and shun dogma;
that we may grow in our understanding of the nature of all living beings
and our connectedness with the natural world;
that we may become ever more filled with
generosity of spirit and true compassion and love for all life;
that we may strive to heal the hurts that we have inflicted on nature
and control our greed for material things, knowing that
our actions are harming our natural world and the future of our children;
that we may value each and every human being
for who he is, for who she is,
reaching to the spirit that is within,
knowing the power of each individual to change the world.
namaste