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  • Wholeness

     

    Wholeness
    Wholeness

    Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

    – Toni Packer

  • In God in Nature Alone

    The vast murmur of the treetops
    God’s breath
    a stirring inhalation
    releases a thunderous power
    gleaming in the eyesHis headdress glistens against the sun
    the wind speaks
    the force of all humanity,
    God and nature as one

    Alive in the eagle’s scream
    a young man’s laughter,
    a sweet and quieting roar
    settles over the field
    as the transparent moon
    lost in depths of blue
    gazes down on me

    i return to you
    your shifting cedars
    stroke my heart
    i move with you
    your rounding hills
    pull me in with excitement

    i return to you, alone
    i revel in the warmth of our aloneness
    i know the presence in this form
    i live your presence in my form
    with each step nearer the center,
    closer to you

    i dance up the broomsedge pasture
    cedars shed their sweet scent,
    their greenness rises before me
    as dusklight crests above the hill

    striking fire, my eyes thrust
    like a driven arrow
    within the shimmering grass

    I stand as an ancestral oak
    dignified, stable ’round jutting rock
    with haunting grandeur,
    a timeless presence
    a grounding wisdom

    Limbs and arms stretch to the sky-
    a bolt of lightning,
    a burning communion:
    the glow of life,
    blazing in this gentle wind.

    We embrace and share every breath,

    my heart remains

    wrapped in golden tufts

    kissing forest lips

    I return to you
    I live within you

    In God in nature alone.

    March 1996

    ROSS L. ANDREWS