Originally posted 4/27/2014.
God says
in order to find peace
link arms with it
and ride it beyond death
we must seek one pebble
in one gravel bed
find one rootlet on one tree
in one forest
then cleave to them
and forsake all others
We take that as true
but we misunderstand it
Holy is not held
in the stone or the root
Holy instead
is held in the search
Holy the touch of each stone
we turn over
Holy each time we plunge our hands
into the soil while seeking the Root
Holy even the choice to say
there is no need to search
Holy even to pick up a random stone
skip it over a pond
point after it and know
that path is as good as any
Dark Matter 
April 25th, 2016 at 7:19 pm
I guess there’s no way to know without trying them all. I have discovered that some of us have the twin to practical realistic Thomas within us and our inclination for believing possibilities visible on the outside and others have Thomas on the outside and a hidden Don Quixote within. One thing in particular intrigues me about the various cultures’ attempts to find spiritual meaning……the mystics of very divergent systems of belief all say the same thing: “Everything is one, so whatever happens affects us all and seeing people, animals, the earth, the stars as “other” is an illusion that makes humanity’s conflicts self defeating and ridiculous.” If we struggle with despair it seems to me that means that within we believe in unseen, unknown and truly benevolent possibilities even though no one has ever experienced them. But it’s sort of like the taste of foreign foods. It we don’t risk “tasting” them, we’ll never know their delight.