EARTH DAY greetings as we continue to work to live in harmony with Earth and ALL that is in it and to build communities that will midwife the journey through the present ecological crisis we are experiencing, on behalf of present and future generations. Below are
-a link to the song video "Let the Earth Breathe" and
-a reflection: "How Then Shall We Live?"
Ellie :)
elliestock@aol.com
SONG VIDEO: "Let the Earth Breathe" (link below):
HOW THEN SHALL
WE LIVE?
What do we call What calls from the
deeps,
that pulses through stars and quickens
heart’s beat,
that surges through waves and cleanses with
fire,
emerges from dust and breathes soul’s
desire?
What do we name What mocks human pride,
that bends the Tree of Life, sustaining
being’s tide?
How do we greet What calls to our deeps,
that lasers vulnerabilities and loves us
into being,
that mourns lost illusions and leaves us
defenseless,
transforms the present moment and
awakens all senses?
How do we embrace What eternalizes
finitude,
that opens wide portals, flooding tears
of gratitude?
How do we know What calls us to decide,
that gives no guarantee and provides no
place to hide,
that beckons all our care and trumps the
doubt within,
reckons despair and hope and connects
all creature kin?
How do we abide in What struggles to
create,
that explodes time and space, freeing partners
with Earth’s fate?
How then shall we live What chisels
passion’s edge,
that resculpts past’s confoundings and
empowers future’s wedge,
that compels us far beyond mind’s
strength or comfort zone,
propels trusting steps into Great Work’s
bidding unknown?
How shall we now journey in vast
community
with That Which journeys through us profoundly
and boundlessly?
~ ejhs