A meditation for Earth Day:
To live in Contemplative Communion is to live with the eye of the heart open; to see behind and beneath the veils of sense into the mystery of sacramentality, the mystery of divine presence made manifest in and through creation.
It is to see the earth in its beauty and maternal seasons of fruit and plenty as a call to trust in providence and live according to its rhythms and patterns; and then, in time of scarcity to feel the call of compassion and mutual sharing.
It is a call to know its very stones as a lesson in stability and stillness, to know its trees as torches lighting the way to heaven, their leaves as sparks upon the wind.
It is the call to recognise in every creature the living breath of the Holy Spirit who sustains life, and to bow in reverence before such temples and tabernacles of the Most High.
It is the call to recognise the wholeness at the heart of our brokenness, the mercy that is new each day and in each moment.
It is the call to know time itself as a revelation of the eternity from which it arises and to find infinite depths of love and service available in each moment.
It is to know that even sin and evil may be turned to our good when seen in the light of Light and surrendered to the grace of Love's love.
It is simply to dwell in grace, and then in and through grace to become grace for others.
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