Being in Alaska is disorienting, living with 22 hours of sunlight
brings one to appreciate what feels like a relentless Solstice. Surrounded by boundless expanses of
green it feels as if Gaia herself is holding onto the light; letting summer
continue to hold sway upon the land in a never ending dance of joyous divinity.
All that grows stands at the foundation of mighty glaciers
that remind those that behold the sight of a basic truth of nature, that the
darkness arrives before the light in perpetuity. Here the divine expressions of nature wash over the observer
in powerful undulations that nourish ones understanding of the sacred.
This land holds her people as minor expressions of
creation upon a landscape of powerful spirits that exist within its’ herds and
wonderers of extraordinary size and power. Here the bear is not simply a wild animal but the acknowledged
master of a sacred expanse that stretches beyond the inner vision of even the
most gifted shaman.
There is humility here for humanity. One is overcome with a sense
that it is we who have distorted nature: repurposed it for our own destructive
and immoral benefit. It is in
standing among the dense forests of green that humans can truly grasp our small
place as a single thread in the cloth of diversity that the Goddess has woven.
Here one can stand in full awe and awareness of one of the
purposes of the UU community. “Direct
experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures,
which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which
create and uphold life”
Upon this landscape one understands that the “forces, which create and uphold life” are
so expansive that a right relationship with nature includes an understanding of
how humans must return to their intended place as just one of Gaia’s creatures.
I am Blessed
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