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In Praise of Water

Let us bless the grace of water:

The imagination of the primeval ocean
Where the first forms of life stirred
And emerged to dress the vacant earth
With warm quilts of color.

The well whose liquid root worked
Through the long night of clay,
Trusting ahead of itself openings
That would yet yield to its yearning
Until at last it arises in the desire of light
To discover the pure quiver of itself
Flowing crystal clear and free
Through delighted emptiness.

The courage of a river to continue belief
In the slow fall of ground,
Always falling farther
Toward the unseen ocean.

The river does what words would love,
Keeping its appearance
By insisting on disappearance;
Its only life surrendered
To the eventF of pilgrimage,
Carrying the origin to its end,
Seldom pushing or straining,
Keeping to itself
Everywhere all along its flow,
All at one with its sinuous mind,
An utter rhythm, never awkward,
It continues to swirl
Through all unlikeness,
With elegance:
A ceaseless traverse of presence
Soothing on each side
The stilled fields,
Sounding out its journey,
Raising up a buried music
Where the silence of time
Becomes almost audible

Tides stirred by the eros of the moon
Draw from that permanent restlessness
Perfect waves that languidly rise
And pleat in gradual forms of aquamarine
To offer every last tear of delight
At the altar of stillness inland.

And the rain in the night, driven
By the loneliness of the wind
To perforate the darkness,
As thought some air pocket might open
To release the perfume of the lost day
And salvage some memory
From its forsaken turbulence
And drop its weight of longing,
Into the earth, and anchor.

Let us bless the humility of water,
Always willing to take the shape
Of whatever otherness holds it,

The buoyancy of water
Stronger than the deadening,
Downward drag of gravity,
The innocence of water,
Flowing forth, without thought
Of what awaits it,
The refreshment of water,
Dissolving the crystals of thirst.

Water: voice of grief,
Cry of love,
In the flowing tear.

Water: vehicle and idiom
Of all the inner voyaging
That keeps us alive.

Blessed be the water,
Our first mother.

~John O'Donohue~

It is my fervent prayer and hope that we all can
assist in alleviating world hunger and lack of water.
It all begins with one small, simple step. Giving.
Giving from the Heart...as in one can of food, or
one gallon of water to your local food pantry or
by finding an online site who contributes to
Third World Countries. We stand poised on the
brink of creating huge change in our world, on
this our Planet......what say you? The time for
sitting on the sidelines is over...it is time to roll
up our sleeves and assist those in need. As I
watched this video my physical being cried out
in pain for these souls who have nothing...least
of all hope for a better tomorrow, much less
future. We can change it...we must change it.

A'HO!!!

Stewardship - A Vision From Down Home from the Vision Alignment Project

The Vision Alignment Project

http://www.visionalignmentproject.com

Little Children are Sacred

Little Children are Sacred

Please, Please, Please go and read this full story....
and then go into Prayer!

All Children are Sacred!
We Must Save The Babies!!!
A'HO!

Now This Is My Idea of Love....

In wanting to wish You All a Happy Valentine's Day,
I kept perusing over and over again what it was I
wanted to impart..some bit of wisdom that would
feed us all perhaps.  There are so many different
kinds of love in this world that to focus on just one
would be silly really.  But bringing them all together
got me to thinking of The Beloved...and we can
interchange that Creator, God, Great Spirit, The All,
Source, and many others...

Back to my thoughts though...celebrating Valentine's
Day is such a commercialized day for me...on the one
hand it is so sweet to make one 'someone' feel special
and loved on a particular day but on the other hand I
find it much easier to show that Love every day, in
ways that are meaningful, making everyday Valentine's
Day.

Recently I have been re-reading books I own that speak
to my heart...one such read is "The Call" by Oriah
Mountain Dreamer...she is one of my favorite authors.
Her writings always grip my inner core and bring out
stuff that I often don't think about unless nudged by
a spirit that recognizes that very thing...a mirror reflecting
in the waters...so when I was reading this passage it
dawned on me to share it as a Valentine message for
today...in hopes that it will bring Love to you in some
form, essence, or spiritual nudging, rippling out in waves
to meet you wherever you are.  Know that I love you
and cherish your sisterhood, your brotherhood, your
'God-ness.'

An excerpt from the last chapter...Tougher

There is nowhere to rest your eye

that does not behold the face of the Beloved.

There is nothing here but you and God,

and no real harm can ever be done to either,

so what is there to forgive?

Ah, it's so hard to keep this perspective,

to remember the truth when things get crazy

and we fear the worst.

All I can do is go back to my breath

and remember the Holy Spirit

is what fills me with every inhale.

How could it be otherwise?

When we get it, all this anguish seems so unnecessary.

When we lose it, suffering seems to be the only option.

All things have their roots planted in the same sacred soil.

Nothing is excluded from the sacred ground of being.

What would happen if we remember this?

What place would be unsuitable for a shrine?

Brothel or barn, crack house or cathedral:  all sacred.

What person would not be another yourself,

a shining and holy face of the Sacred Mystery?

Remember this when you look at those you call your enemies.

Even your darkest secrets,

the things about your self that make you cringe -

do you think the sacred presence is not large enough to include these?

How small our notion of God is.

How our ideas fail to even guess at the depth of the passion

the Beloved feels for us.

Open your eyes.

See, there is nothing here but you and the Beloved,

and no real separation between even these two.

Now that ought to make you smile.

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer~

May Today WE ALL See the Beloved in One Another

on this Day of Love we set aside each year...

Valentine's Day.

I Love You!

Akasa

The Perfect Genetic Storm: Synthetic DNA and The Gulf Blue Plague

There is a great write-up about this at Water Is Life...
http://water-is-life.blogspot.com/2011/01/perfect-genetic-storm-synthetic-dna-and.html

Awake and Aware!!!!
Prayers Still Going Up On The Smoke!
A'HO!

An Interview With Catfish Miller - Shrimper Who Is Hospitalized from Gul...

Please....continue to keep The Gulf Waters and All of its Peoples in
your prayers......Your prayers are very much needed!

Oil Spill Commission Final Report: Catfish Responds

Gentle With Myself-Positive Affirmations-art by RobynNola.com and music ...

Wishing for You a Day of Gentleness and Tenderness in
All That You Do!

Walk Gently into This Good Day....

You Are Beautiful to Me!

You Matter!

A'HO!

Chevron Pulls Greatest Magic Trick Yet...

Good Afternoon Everyone...

  I received this yesterday in my email and
thought I'd post the info here for you to check
out.  This is from my Sister/Friend Shelley
Bluejay Pierce who is a news reporter, activist
for the Indigenous People, amongst a host of
other things.  For her to even be doing
something of this magnitute, proves to me her
Love for the Land and Water, as she has been
very ill the past several years...but still she
pushes upward and onward for the things that
matter to her personally, to the Indigenous People,
for Humanity and All Living Things.  I give a Big
Thank You Shelley Shout Out for keeping us aware
and awake!  Now onward to the story...

People and Partnership? Checking Chevron's Performance