wednesday ruminations

courtesy of Rob Brezsny... i offer you the following...

"...I think it's worthwhile to consider the possibility that suffering is a gift God gives us in order to prod our evolution. On a personal level, your longing to escape your suffering is a primal force in making you smarter. On a collective level, nothing refines and ennobles us more than our passion to keep others from suffering. "

hmm... suffering as vehicle...? why else would we change...?

next... beautiful expression of Nature disconnect in our modern world...

"We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in a storm of grief and planted itself again.

These are our tasks: Learn the secret language of light again. Also the letters of the dark. Learn the flight patterns of birds, the syllables of wolf howl and bird song, the moving pantomime of branch and leaf, valleys and peaks of whale calls, the long sentences of ants moving in unison, the combinations and recombinations of clouds, the codices of stars. Let us thus, reconstitute the world, sign by sign and melody by melody.

Let us sing the world back into the very Heart of the Holy Name of God."
-Deena Metzger, "Prayers for a Thousand Years"


c.