When you bring up any news site today you might well think that the structure of the universe is chaos, and destruction, one long endless decent into environmental degradation and viral death. But isn’t it amazing that we are alive, each of us a mysterious creature made up of millions of cells, changing and renewing, fighting off cancers, repairing bones, living, walking, breathing and loving life?
One might choose to believe that this process is the unwinding of a mechanistic world or a universe held together at it very core by a passionately loving Creator-Artist.
What about these beautiful words by Brie Stoner, “Even now as I type, when I “tune” my heart, I can sense the relationship at the intersection of my body and the long journey the breeze made before moving the strands of hair around my face; the length of the song of the bird chirping perched in the tree in my back yard and just how long that tree grew for decades to be there; the effort of the grass growing under my feet and the energy buzzing off the highway nearby.
I can, if I’m paying attention, sense the relationship to the “wholeness of things” every time I breathe: there is no “separate me,” for my very being is entirely reliant on its relationship with oxygen being drawn in from the outside. Can I ever really say “I” when millions of bacteria strains that I am host to depend on what I feed them to survive and in turn help me survive? It would be more scientifically (and spiritually) accurate to refer to ourselves in the first person as “we” instead of “I.” Everything is in relationship, and we are swimming in relationality…or dare we say, love.
Perhaps if we begin by sensing the relational universe we live in (i.e. Love), we can begin to see all the ways our lives are not as disconnected as they seem. All of the longing, anguish, joy, and terror of being human is all actually part of the same energetic thrust that birthed our solar system. The messiness of being human belongs; we don’t have to fight it or run away from it.
Perhaps when we re-connect with the wholeness of life around and through us in our embodied, conscious awareness, we can make room for an even-greater unfolding of evolution, infusing us with a deep sense of trust: Even out of the greatest suffering, something new can be shaped and grown into. Then whatever is on our plate today, whatever is ours to face and do….“Even with the littlest, most insignificant thing, when it comes from love, we begin.”