Moments of prayer are moments of union… the first prayer is
the sigh of the soul.
Llewellyn
Vaughan-Lee Prayer of the Heart
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they seem so inadequate
the words, the images we use for
that something beyond ourselves
for that reality that gives life
forms life
for that loving presence that is woven into everything
everyone
impelled by my sense of separation
I seek to somehow define and capture
that which like the wind
or the mist of the morning
cannot be contained
the words tumble from my heart and mouth
God
Father
Mother
Spirit
Beloved
and yet the moment the sighs of my heart
are formed into words
this Other is diminished
made smaller
made into something, someone I can grasp
and perhaps that is the problem
that which is woven into the very fabric of everything
into infinity and beyond
that which is present in every living creatures
even those creatures we call human
becomes separate, localized
even, perhaps
“ours”
something, someone we claim as belonging to us (but not
to them)
something, someone that divides
as we use our different names, our different images
then we no longer see this reality
that perhaps can best be called Love
in the sunrise and sunset
it the mountains and valley
rivers and streams
the animals and birds
the earth becomes merely clay
merely something to be used and abused
not the self-expression of Love
then we no longer see Sacred in each person we meet
no matter their color
no matter their language or culture
no matter their creed
we cannot see Sacred in the short person
the tall person
the left-handed person
the LGBTQI person
not even, sometimes, if they speak the same words as us
if we would know that in which we live
and breathe, and have our being
we must move to union
we must move, somehow beyond words
into that place where everything melts and merges
and we move beyond duality
to that place where we understand that Sacred
participates in us
and we participate in the Sacred
and we are one
with everything
perhaps then we will learn to care for the earth
perhaps then we will learn to love Love
and love those other creatures who participate with us
in this oneness
and even love ourselves
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