“better to light a candle than curse the darkness”

for our weekly segment around showing you the astonishing light of being, i offer this picture of and blessing from the sacred spirit of rainbow mystery, sister of the cosmic hum in all her iridescence to remind us when we are in the dark, we can always come home to the inner light by breathing in through the heart… and while we’re on the subject of  the astonishing light of rainbows…

How the Rainbow Works

Mostly we occupy ocular zones, clinging
only to what we think we can see.
We can’t see wind or waves of thought,
electrical fields or atoms dancing;
only what they do or make us believe.

Look on all of life as color –
vibratile movement, heart-centered,
from invisibility to the merely visible.
Never mind what happens when one of us dies.
Where were you before you even get born?
Where am I and all the unseeable souls
we love at this moment, or loathed
before birth?  Where are we right now?

Everything that ever happened either
never did or always will with variations.
Let’s put it another way: Nothing ever
happened that wasn’t dreamed, that wasn’t
sketched from the start with artful surprises.
Think of the dreamer as God, a painter,
a ham, to be sure, but a divine old master
whose medium is light and who sidesteps
tedium by leaving room both inside and outside
this picture for subjects and scenery to wing it.

~ Al Young ~