Each day the media spins its stories of our human condition. Most often we see what sells, the dark side of our fear that leads to greed, hatred, degradation, violence and destruction. Like images in a hall of mirrors the distortions of the dark side become the reality we perceive as our nature.
It is difficult not to yield to despair in the face of the ways we treat each other and our planet. At the same time, each of us contributes to the fear / love equation by our choices each day.
I have taken to searching for those whose lives, work and writing lift up the goodness and promise of our human journey. Without messages that nourish the light of our souls, how else can we survive individually and as a species?
Diane Ackerman provides today’s inspiration, reminding me that my attitude and my actions make a difference. May you find a gem in her words to nurture your soul as well.
In the name of the daybreak and the eyelids of morning and the wayfaring moon and the night when it departs,
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
In the name of the sun and its mirrors and the day that embraces it and the cloud veils drawn over it and the uttermost night and the male and the female and the plants bursting with seed and the crowning seasons of the firefly and the apple,
I will honor all life – wherever and in whatever form it may dwell – on Earth my home, and in the mansions of the stars.
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Diane Ackerman speaks truth, and reminds me of Micah 6, and also reminds me of my father. When challenged to describe what he hoped to do in his ministry, he said: “My goal is to love the hell out of people.”
LOVE is the WAY
Thank you for this. Your timing is impeccable!