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Teilhard de Chardin once said, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." When we walk the earth as spirit embodied in human form, our feet are on the ground, earthed, taking one step at a time in our journey from birth to death.
How we walk that path is the art form that becomes our lives. Sometimes we drag our feet, struggling with everyone around us, forgetting to call spirit into our lives to help us find a more graceful pace. Sometimes we tiptoe with our head in the clouds, communing with spirit but forgetting to express that love through creative action in the physical world. And sometimes we dance, fully present, fully responsive to the spirit within us and among us and around us, as we express our love and creativity in our work, our play, and our relationships.
This balancing of our humanness and our indwelling spirit is a sacred dance, in which we are asked to attune our steps to the pulse of the path we are walking, heeding the call of spirit to blend our own personal energy with the flow of life all around us... to be in our place and to play our part in All That Is in a way that is peaceful and creative and life-affirming.
When we are connected with spirit we are connected on a deeper level with the Mystery that beats the heart of Creation. We know that we belong, that we are home, wherever we are on our path. It makes all of our relationships sacred learning experiences: relationships with our friends and family, with people in our communities, with strangers far away and humanity as a whole; with all of life as it is embodied in the natural world of plants, animals, the earth, and all of Creation.
As Mother Teresa once said, we become like "a little pencil in the hand of God, writing a love letter to the world."
~Sharon
Threads: Wisdom