for this week’s installment of the astonishing light of being which falls on Mother’s Day, i am breaking my long standing tradition of posting Julia Ward Howe’s Mothering Peace Declaration for a different Mother of Peace on this very different Mother’s Day in this very different moment of eternity… on this mothering peace day, this feast of mother julian day, i feel a deep song arising foreshadowed by a lucid dream, a soul song of the many waves of the ocean, a song of peace passing all understanding and uniting us all in one murmuration, one frequency of harmony… let “all shall be well” breathe us all again and again as our one heart opens in the rhythm of the tides of ebb and flow with peace, thousand fold peace in this moment of eternity asking all our relations to be mothers of peace re-membering:
“Nothing could have prepared
Your heart to open like this.
From beyond the skies and the stars
This echo arrived inside you
And started to pulse with life,
Each beat a tiny act of growth,
Traversing all our ancient shapes
On its way home to itself.
Once it began, you were no longer your own.
A new, more courageous you, offering itself
In a new way to a presence you can sense
But you have not seen or known.
It has made you feel alone
In a way you never knew before;
Everyone else sees only from the outside
What you feel and feed
With every fiber of your being.
Never have you traveled farther inward
Where words and thoughts become half-light
Unable to reach the fund of brightness…
Like some primeval moon,
Your soul brightens
The tides of essence…
You know your life has changed forever,
For in all the days and years to come,
Distance will never be able to cut you off…
May you be blessed with quiet confidence
That destiny will guide you and mind you.
May the emerging spirit of your child
Imbibe encouragement and joy
From the continuous music of your heart,
So that it can grow with ease,
Expectant of wonder and welcome
When its form is fully filled
And it makes its journey out
To see you and settle at last
Relived, and glad in your arms.”
~ John O’Donohue ~
may we all give birth to a consciousness of peace real-eye-sing we are one interbeing interdependent on each imaginal cell to be a soul song of peace…
