Forgive them...

The song at morning prayer yesterday included a chanting of the line "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."

Perhaps there is a cosmic wisdom in this message that I never appreciated before...

Maybe forgiveness is the only response to the wrongs, evils, stupidities, violences...that we commit in a state of limited consciousness/ignorance. Jesus with fuller knowing responds to immense suffering perpetrated by those who do not understand that the pain they are inflicting is causing suffering to the whole body of which they/we are a part. 

Can our global community barely beginning to know ourselves as part of a greater whole forgive our less conscious selves "for we know not what we do"?

For all the ways we have used/abused/exploited other parts of the whole, taken without consent or gratitude, are forgiveness and learning to pay forward what can never be paid back pathways to transformation?

Listen to glaciers and stardust

How do I learn to listen to glaciers and stardust?

The deep listening that our time calls for only barely begins with hugging a tree. It requires that we embrace the whole of creation and learn from it, engage it through inquiry, dialogue, and accountability. 

Starting to learn and practice these skills with my fellow humans is barely scratching the surface and at least a beginning. 

Then someday perhaps I can also learn to listen and understand glaciers, oceans, and stars. 

I Am

I am

I am layers of being and layers of consciousness. 

I am blood and stars. 

I am knowing and unknowing. 

I am and I am becoming.