November 2023 – THE DAILY ROUND

Sweet Earth,

we give great thanks

for your light-livened layers

of spirit and being,

flowered, feathered, furred,

glistening iridescence

of flesh, bark, water, and wing—

all interlaced by love’s design,

pierced through with the music

of sighs, the reaching yearning

to be, one with the other;

companion, food, and mystery

freely given to embrace

in every moment’s offering

of nourishing amazement.

A blessed Thanksgiving to all celebrating, gathering with beloveds, lifting hearts in gratitude, turning towards joy, healing, and peace. May we hold in love those who are denied all these good things by their own or others’ choices. May our thoughts and actions have their genesis in mercy, and may wisdom shape our silence and words. May we not hate, but work—always—for deeper love and justice, within, without.

Gentle peace to all creation.

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By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined the sacred as distant and inaccessible, when in fact, we are steeped in its burning layers. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Happy new morning, blessed new week. May we use more of our time on this beautiful planet to make art, make music, make joy, make love, make connections, make time for listening, and especially, to make peace: in our spirits, our families, our communities, our world.

Be still and know peace.

Then do it. Do peace, with all your heart.