For the past several weeks I've been meditating on the Days (Miracles) of Creation from Genesis and the fact that part of what this first miracle signifies the primordial origin of the highest heights (heaven) and the deepest depths (earth). Consider these heights and depths as the potential within Creation and the human soul.
I was reminded of something cosmologist Brian Swimme said about spiritual discipline in his Canticle of the Cosmos:
"If suddenly we could see what is fully before us, right now, we would be obliterated. We would not have the strength to contain the feelings that would rush into us. So we are given a protective gum over our senses. Then, if we want to develop the strength – this is spiritual discipline – for bearing this glory and this misery, we have to develop a process of developing subjectivity. ... Take a sycamore tree. There's a glimmer of the fullness that is there and then it evaporates. And then the question is asked, 'Am I important enough to you that you will strive to awaken the depths that are necessary to contain my fullness?'"
To me, this speaks so powerfully of what the Christian Druid journey is all about. And Christ gives us the strength to bear the glory and the misery of embodied existence.
I do not know the difference between scripture and Scripture, at least not in my articulated knowledge. But if my dream-knowledge of the difference is accurate, there is as much Holy Scripture in Homer and Hesiod, in Dumas and Verne, as there is in Moses or Lao Tzu.
For the past several weeks I've been meditating on the Days (Miracles) of Creation from Genesis and the fact that part of what this first miracle signifies the primordial origin of the highest heights (heaven) and the deepest depths (earth). Consider these heights and depths as the potential within Creation and the human soul.
I was reminded of something cosmologist Brian Swimme said about spiritual discipline in his Canticle of the Cosmos:
"If suddenly we could see what is fully before us, right now, we would be obliterated. We would not have the strength to contain the feelings that would rush into us. So we are given a protective gum over our senses. Then, if we want to develop the strength – this is spiritual discipline – for bearing this glory and this misery, we have to develop a process of developing subjectivity. ... Take a sycamore tree. There's a glimmer of the fullness that is there and then it evaporates. And then the question is asked, 'Am I important enough to you that you will strive to awaken the depths that are necessary to contain my fullness?'"
To me, this speaks so powerfully of what the Christian Druid journey is all about. And Christ gives us the strength to bear the glory and the misery of embodied existence.
Very beautiful, yes.
I do not know the difference between scripture and Scripture, at least not in my articulated knowledge. But if my dream-knowledge of the difference is accurate, there is as much Holy Scripture in Homer and Hesiod, in Dumas and Verne, as there is in Moses or Lao Tzu.