Ceremonial Woman
I see her from a distance, across the room.
Breath stops - heart skips - knees buckle.
Sweeness. The scent of roses?
Something familiar - a remembrance
like wisps of smoke, seen, then not.
Her feet step firmly on the earth, yet lightly
lest harm come to any living thing.
Her heart precedes her
far above, beneath, around, about.
Is it true? Can there be that much love?
Her eyes look, see, embrace the view -
all that is seen dances in the joy of the seen.
Her laugh - tinkling celeste, hearty timpani,
a symphony, every range of sound,
inclusive, draws, entices me in.
Her body, strong in the truth -
interconnected, interdependent.
"We each live each other."
Her truth, now mine, once absent, now clear.
Her soul, her presence, her delight, her accessibility,
her wisdom, her courage, her integrity, her essence.
Mystery entered into the womb of her who births
me, the salmon, the whale, the wolf, the bear,
the tree, the mountain, the hawk, the eagle,
the lake, the stream, the ocean,
the volcano, the glacier -
all that is, born of her.
You, beloved Sister, are she -
Ceremonial Woman.
Blessed are you
and the fruit of your womb.
And this, a reading that was included in my CoDA meetings:
Prayer of the Person: (Author unknown)
The person across from you is the greatest miracle and the greatest mystery in this moment - a testament to God's continuing creation and presence in the world.
The person across from you is an inexhaustible reservoir of possibility, with potentialities only partially realized.
The person across from you is a unique universe of experience - of possibility and necessity, laughter and tears, love and indifference, hopes and fears - all struggling for expression.
The person across from you believes in something - something precious; stands for something, lives for something, labors for something, waits for something, runs for something, runs towards something.
The person across from you is not perfect - often feels disappointed, is often undecided and disorganized and woefully close to chaos; but is endowed with a tremendous inner strength and is capable of surviving great difficulties and persecutions.
The person across from you is a community of persons - persons met during a lifetime. Each carries with them a mother and father, student and teacher, brother and sister, enemy and friend.
The person across from you does some things like no one else in the world. There is something this one life on eartth means and cares for - will that person dare speak of it to you?
The person across from you is more description that explanation. The person across from you is MYSTERY made in God's image, never tobe fully understood.
Look before you and wtihin you - look around - for God is indeed among us!
As I mentioned yesterday about a writing that came to me "author unknown", if any of you knows who wrote these magnificent words, please be sure to post a comment so the author can be duly recognized and honored.
Thank you, my dear sisters - for your most precious eyes that read these words.
I am so grateful!
Thanks for it all!
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