Sacred Water

“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.

There is no life without water.”

-Albert Szent-Gyorgyl

The Preserve, Water Drop, Tree Trunk

Sacred water, this precious gift holds our very existence.

Sweet life itself is not possible without water.

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans;

in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”

-Kahlil Gibran

I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux

 

What is Divine in All of Us

My religion (by J Clement Wall)

My religion
doesn’t involve a church or a minister or a pulpit;
it’s practiced under a roof of sky,
whispered by the wind,
preached by birds and crickets and rivers and toads.

My religion
isn’t written in scripture;
it’s written in the hearts of lovers
and parents
and artists
and everyone who,
broken from the weight of too many endings,
gets back up to love again.

My religion
lies at the point of contact,
where feet meet earth,
where inhale meets exhale,
where your infinitely breakable heart meets mine.

My religion
isn’t big on words like sin and wrong and perfect;
it’s big on honesty, vulnerability, messiness… awe.
The followers of my religion
are badass, open-hearted, hippie warriors of love,
who know that you don’t dance to get somewhere
or sing to reach the end of the song.

We sing and dance to reach what is
divine in all of us.

In love,
we are each other’s salvation.

Rabbitt, Trail of the Cedars