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I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

I wish I were a tree

I wish I were a tree.

Rooted to one place.
Friend of the wind.
Sun bather.
Rain catcher.

Home to many.
Servant to seasons.
Shade to the hot human.

I am sure I would find the prunings painful,
the winters cold,
and perhaps I would worry about the inevitable fall.

But I doubt it.

For the roar of sap within and the caress of the elements without would drown out all other noisy distractions from what it means to simply
be
Tree.

September 12, 2014

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender, and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender, and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender, and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender, and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

Continuing remembrance of Brendan Doyle, friend, musician, educator, & #CreationSpirituality thought leader, who traced the Four Paths of CS thru Wagner's Ring Cycle: primordial Nature, pain & #empathy, #imagination & #creativity, & redemption of the world thru #compassion. https://tinyurl.com/muzzdfe6

Continuing remembrance of Brendan Doyle, friend, musician, educator, & #CreationSpirituality thought leader, who traced the Four Paths of CS thru Wagner's Ring Cycle: primordial Nature, pain & #empathy, #imagination & #creativity, & redemption of the world thru #compassion. https://tinyurl.com/muzzdfe6

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
bit.ly/3Ql5rsN

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
bit.ly/3Ql5rsN

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
bit.ly/3Ql5rsN

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
bit.ly/3Ql5rsN

Wet Prayer (A Tanka Poem)

Author’s Note: I have written haiku for many years. Heiwa Haiku has often been a spiritual practice for me. Recently I discovered tanka, another form of Japanese poetry, which, put simply, is haiku plus two additional lines. Haiku is generally written as three lines of 5-7-5 syllables respectively. Tanka uses the same format at the beginning and then adds two additional line of 7 syllables each. The following is my first attempt at tanka. I am looking forward to further exploration and sharing my tanka poetry.

The morning is gray,
a soft rain is falling down.
I walk with head bowed, 
watching the mist of my breath,
listening to the wet prayer.

#CreationSpirituality is both a tradition & movement, celebrated by mystics...from every age & culture. It's the Bible's oldest tradition & that of the historical Jesus: Israel's wisdom tradition is creation-centered. CS traditions run thru most of humanity's religions & philosophies.
Image: "A Shepherd of Jerusalem" by William James Webbe.
bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is both a tradition & movement, celebrated by mystics...from every age & culture. It's the Bible's oldest tradition & that of the historical Jesus: Israel's wisdom tradition is creation-centered. CS traditions run thru most of humanity's religions & philosophies.
Image: "A Shepherd of Jerusalem" by William James Webbe.
bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is both a tradition & movement, celebrated by mystics...from every age & culture. It's the Bible's oldest tradition & that of the historical Jesus: Israel's wisdom tradition is creation-centered. CS traditions run thru most of humanity's religions & philosophies.
Image: "A Shepherd of Jerusalem" by William James Webbe.
bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality welcomes #science b/c CS seeks to know all we can abt #nature & #creation. #Aquinas warned in 13th century: "A mistake abt creation results in a mistake abt God." So too, insight abt creation results in insight abt God. bit.ly/4hkaVA6
UNC botanist takes water sample. Wikimedia

#CreationSpirituality welcomes #science b/c CS seeks to know all we can abt #nature & #creation. #Aquinas warned in 13th century: "A mistake abt creation results in a mistake abt God." So too, insight abt creation results in insight abt God. bit.ly/4hkaVA6
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
UNC botanist takes water sample. Wikimedia

#CreationSpirituality welcomes #science b/c CS seeks to know all we can abt #nature & #creation. #Aquinas warned in 13th century: "A mistake abt creation results in a mistake abt God." So too, insight abt creation results in insight abt God. bit.ly/4hkaVA6
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
UNC botanist takes water sample. Wikimedia

#CreationSpirituality welcomes #science b/c CS seeks to know all we can abt #nature & #creation. #Aquinas warned in 13th century: "A mistake abt creation results in a mistake abt God." So too, insight abt creation results in insight abt God. bit.ly/4hkaVA6
UNC botanist takes water sample. Wikimedia

#CreationSpirituality is ecologically minded & committed. It works hard and with growing imagination to slow climate change & other expressions of injustice, while interfering with the suffering of Mother Earth and her creatures. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is ecologically minded & committed. It works hard and with growing imagination to slow climate change & other expressions of injustice, while interfering with the suffering of Mother Earth and her creatures. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is ecologically minded & committed. It works hard and with growing imagination to slow climate change & other expressions of injustice, while interfering with the suffering of Mother Earth and her creatures. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality resists preaching of #cheapguilt that disempowers ppl & reinforces #shame & pessimism & fails to honor/unleash the power of #creativity. Whether this teaching comes thru ideologies of #OriginalSin in religion or consumer #capitalism, it is equally pernicious.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality resists preaching of #cheapguilt that disempowers ppl & reinforces #shame & pessimism & fails to honor/unleash the power of #creativity. Whether this teaching comes thru ideologies of #OriginalSin in religion or consumer #capitalism, it is equally pernicious.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality resists preaching of #cheapguilt that disempowers ppl & reinforces #shame & pessimism & fails to honor/unleash the power of #creativity. Whether this teaching comes thru ideologies of #OriginalSin in religion or consumer #capitalism, it is equally pernicious.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

Who are #CreationSpirituality -aligned #authors & what are the #books Matthew Fox recommends?
#angels #artasmeditation #consciousness #cosmology #creativity #deepecology #deepecumenism #divinefeminine #Jesus+Christ #mystics #practices #psychology #religion+theology #sacredactivism
bit.ly/4bZmrkz

Who are #CreationSpirituality -aligned #authors & what are the #books Matthew Fox recommends?
#angels #artasmeditation #consciousness #cosmology #creativity #deepecology #deepecumenism #divinefeminine #Jesus+Christ #mystics #practices #psychology #religion+theology #sacredactivism
bit.ly/4bZmrkz

Who are #CreationSpirituality -aligned #authors & what are the #books Matthew Fox recommends?
#angels #artasmeditation #consciousness #cosmology #creativity #deepecology #deepecumenism #divinefeminine #Jesus+Christ #mystics #practices #psychology #religion+theology #sacredactivism
bit.ly/4bZmrkz

Who are #CreationSpirituality -aligned #authors & what are the #books Matthew Fox recommends?
#angels #artasmeditation #consciousness #cosmology #creativity #deepecology #deepecumenism #divinefeminine #Jesus+Christ #mystics #practices #psychology #religion+theology #sacredactivism
bit.ly/4bZmrkz

#Diversity is the nature of the Universe...
There are many wells of #faith & knowledge drawing from one underground river of Divine Wisdom. The practice of honoring, learning, & celebrating the wisdom gathered from these wells is #DeepEcumenism. #CreationSpirituality
#OriginalBlessing bit.ly/4hkaVA6
Image: The underground river of Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park. Wikimedia.

#Diversity is the nature of the Universe...
There are many wells of #faith & knowledge drawing from one underground river of Divine Wisdom. The practice of honoring, learning, & celebrating the wisdom gathered from these wells is #DeepEcumenism. #CreationSpirituality
#OriginalBlessing bit.ly/4hkaVA6
Image: The underground river of Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park. Wikimedia.

#Diversity is the nature of the Universe...
There are many wells of #faith & knowledge drawing from one underground river of Divine Wisdom. The practice of honoring, learning, & celebrating the wisdom gathered from these wells is #DeepEcumenism. #CreationSpirituality
#OriginalBlessing bit.ly/4hkaVA6
Image: The underground river of Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park. Wikimedia.

#CreationSpirituality is about simplifying our lifestyles, for how else can we ensure the Earth survives the human experiment? It's about spirituality & not religion as such, finding common ground w/ faith believers but not putting concepts, dogmas or doctrines ahead of experience. #OrderOfTheSacredEarth bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is about simplifying our lifestyles, for how else can we ensure the Earth survives the human experiment? It's about spirituality & not religion as such, finding common ground w/ faith believers but not putting concepts, dogmas or doctrines ahead of experience. #OrderOfTheSacredEarth bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is about simplifying our lifestyles, for how else can we ensure the Earth survives the human experiment? It's about spirituality & not religion as such, finding common ground w/ faith believers but not putting concepts, dogmas or doctrines ahead of experience. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth #OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Little Finnish eco-activist photo: MoudBarthez, Flickr
https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth #OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Little Finnish eco-activist photo: MoudBarthez, Flickr
https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth #OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Little Finnish eco-activist photo: MoudBarthez, Flickr
https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality is about recovering #nature and all of #creation as #sacred again, supporting #eco-activists and others seeking social, racial, gender and environmental justice. #LoveProtect+DefendMotherEarth #OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Little Finnish eco-activist photo: MoudBarthez, Flickr
https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures. bit.ly/3Ql5rsN
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Photo: Greenpeace, Berlin

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures. bit.ly/3Ql5rsN
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Photo: Greenpeace, Berlin

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures. bit.ly/3Ql5rsN
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Photo: Greenpeace, Berlin

#CreationSpirituality emphasizes the #sacredness of Earth. It encourages #creativity to combat works causing #globalwarming & #climatechange & other expressions of #injustice, while working hard to interfere w/ the #suffering of #MotherEarth & her creatures. bit.ly/3Ql5rsN
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
Photo: Greenpeace, Berlin

#CreationSpirituality begins not with #OriginalSin but w/ #OriginalBlessing: i.e., #life & #existence are #good & indeed "very good" (Gen.1:31). This makes a big difference psychologically & sociologically: OS=self-doubt, despair, dependence vs OB=empowerment & responsibility. #OrderOfTheSacredEarth bit.ly/3WRTQFD

#CreationSpirituality begins not with #OriginalSin but w/ #OriginalBlessing: i.e., #life & #existence are #good & indeed "very good" (Gen.1:31). This makes a big difference psychologically & sociologically: OS=self-doubt, despair, dependence vs OB=empowerment & responsibility. #OrderOfTheSacredEarth bit.ly/3WRTQFD

#CreationSpirituality begins not with #OriginalSin but w/ #OriginalBlessing: i.e., #life & #existence are #good & indeed "very good" (Gen.1:31). This makes a big difference psychologically & sociologically: OS=self-doubt, despair, dependence vs OB=empowerment & responsibility. bit.ly/3WRTQFD

The #OrderoftheSacredEarth grows out of the #CreationSpirituality tradition running thru most human religions & philosophies. It's based in #DeepEcology & #DeepEcumenism; seeing #creation as #originalblessing...; seeing #God as both #Father & #Mother. https://www.matthewfox.org/donation-store/order-of-the-sacred-earth-an-intergerational-vision-of-love-and-action
Photo: Daniel139601, Wikimedia.

The #OrderoftheSacredEarth grows out of the #CreationSpirituality tradition running thru most human religions & philosophies. It's based in #DeepEcology & #DeepEcumenism; seeing #creation as #originalblessing...; seeing #God as both #Father & #Mother. https://www.matthewfox.org/donation-store/order-of-the-sacred-earth-an-intergerational-vision-of-love-and-action
Photo: Daniel139601, Wikimedia.

The #OrderoftheSacredEarth grows out of the #CreationSpirituality tradition running thru most human religions & philosophies. It's based in #DeepEcology & #DeepEcumenism; seeing #creation as #originalblessing...; seeing #God as both #Father & #Mother. https://www.matthewfox.org/donation-store/order-of-the-sacred-earth-an-intergerational-vision-of-love-and-action
Photo: Daniel139601, Wikimedia.

#CreationSpirituality is both a tradition & movement, celebrated by mystics...from every age & culture. It's the Bible's oldest tradition & that of the historical Jesus: Israel's wisdom tradition is creation-centered. CS traditions run thru most of humanity's religions & philosophies. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is both a tradition & movement, celebrated by mystics...from every age & culture. It's the Bible's oldest tradition & that of the historical Jesus: Israel's wisdom tradition is creation-centered. CS traditions run thru most of humanity's religions & philosophies. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is about simplifying our lifestyles, for how else can we ensure the Earth survives the human experiment? It's about spirituality & not religion as such, finding common ground w/ faith believers but not putting concepts, dogmas or doctrines ahead of experience. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CreationSpirituality is about simplifying our lifestyles, for how else can we ensure the Earth survives the human experiment? It's about spirituality & not religion as such, finding common ground w/ faith believers but not putting concepts, dogmas or doctrines ahead of experience. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

As beloved teacher #JoannaMacy lingers at the gateway of transition, Matthew Fox will honor her in a lecture on #TheWorkThatReconnects and the Four Paths of #CreationSpirituality. Saturday, 7/12, 10 am-12 pm PT. Register: bit.ly/3GEz339

As beloved teacher #JoannaMacy lingers at the gateway of transition, Matthew Fox will honor her in a lecture on #TheWorkThatReconnects and the Four Paths of #CreationSpirituality. Saturday, 7/12, 10 am-12 pm PT. Register: bit.ly/3GEz339

#HailTheTraveler: Theologian #WalterBrueggeman, whose work is central to mine in #CreationSpirituality. " Every #totalitarian regime is frightened by the #artist ...Indeed, poetic #imagination is the last way left in which to challenge & conflict the dominant reality." #RestInPower bit.ly/3HxsM9O

#HailTheTraveler: Theologian #WalterBrueggeman, whose work is central to mine in #CreationSpirituality. " Every #totalitarian regime is frightened by the #artist ...Indeed, poetic #imagination is the last way left in which to challenge & conflict the dominant reality." #RestInPower bit.ly/3HxsM9O