in the silent moment, all begins and nothing ends...
This morning as I was visiting around to some of my favorite blogs, I stopped at my New Sister Rachel Snyder's to read and absorb her words...
When I arrived I was met with one of the most Heart Touching
Living Prayers I've ever read. It leapt into my being like nothing has done in a long, long time. I then began to think to myself that this Prayer, this Living and Breathing Prayer needs to be heard across The Planet. Every Heart should hold this, breathe this, feel this. I wrestled with myself for a while and then decided I'd just ask Rachel if I could repost it here on my blog and why...and here are my words to Rachel....and then onto her post. I encourage each one of you to pass it on...send it to everyone you know, let this prayer be like the wildfire that spreads from a tiny spark. As well, I hope you can stop by Rachel's blog and leave a comment from Your Heart to Hers! Go and see the beautiful picture she posted to go with her beautiful words...
And Rachel...Thank You Sister Love, for being a Vessel of Divine Love and Inspiration for All of Us...Thank You for reminding us through word and deed that what we say and do matters immensely.
Good Morning Bold, Beautiful and Divine Woman!
I have been sitting here wrestling with myself over your post in the silent moment...
Truly Sister I think this poem/living prayer needs to go viral...I think it needs to be heard all over the Planet...I think it should be shouted on the mountaintops, prayed reverantly beside the waters, whispered in the forests, and put on every blog in the Universe...
I'd like to ask your permission to repost it to my blog on Stone Soup as well as on HeartSongs....I will direct everyone to your blog and post that it was written by you.
This is vastly important and I think a way to get people in a mindset of putting down violent forms of vitriolic words, a way to stay peaceful in heart, body, soul, and to bring about changes toward peaceful resolution all over the world. I don't think you were given these words to sit on your blog Rachel...in other words, everyone needs them inside of their Heart's Song! Yes Sister, they do...
I will however honor whatever decision you come to as I value what you share and would never post anything without your consent."
I give you Rachel's words....
This verse made its way out after President Obama announced
there would be a moment of silence for the victims of the Arizona shooting.
A moment of silence: it honors, is reverent
Yet perhaps now, today, ever-so-slightly irrelevant
In the silence is wisdom, reflection, and prayer
Yet also ambivalence (shrug shoulders) who cares?
A moment so brief and then back to distraction
A fleeting outpouring then default contraction –
The pain may be numbed, the sorrow diminished
Feelings reined in and perfunctory rituals finished
Yet who will sooth say that we’ve earned ourselves closure
By momentarily donning pale masks of civil composure?
Perhaps something different, a more earnest resolution
Might beget quantum leaps in our human evolution
Can we not connect up naked hearts everlasting
For the whole of existence, not simply in passing
Perhaps not a moment but lifetimes instead
To carry flowers to the living, light for the dead
And in place of the silence, the gesture outspoken:
Sweet kisses beyond tender, hugs that transcend the token
A touch beyond custom, a gaze caught, then lingered
Compassion and caring truly wrought, not malingered,
Collective blaming, decrying will not carry us forward
There are steps to be taken – not away from, yet toward
The first is to allow yourself fully to feel
The next to acknowledge your desire to heal,
Soon you let others know in true kindness expressing
That you recognize all that they carry! The blessings,
The pain, the loss, the joys scarcely known
And in their tearful eyes, you see mirrored your own.
In one moment of silence, untold songs can be sung
Words of love embosomed gently on the tips of searching tongues,
Unrestricted weeping melts away the frozen face of fear
And brings new life to barren blooms here, and here and here
Within the silence you will reap new treasures found within
And then you’ll find within the moment,
all begins and nothing ends.
Link for Rachel's Blog:
be whole now
