| “I lie down in fields of goldenrod, and everlasting. Who could find me?” Mary Oliver |
Everlasting
It took me a while, but I now know God’s love is everlasting.
For a long time, Divine Love felt more like a threat [if you don’t eat all your vegetables, I’m sending you to your room].
Divine Love is now — soft at the edges; tender to the touch; flowing with life.
Lady Julian of Norwich says it is the “glorious mingling” of body and soul, matter and spirit.
The everlasting love of the Holy One is what makes all things — one.
It is what draws us in — nurtures us — conspires with us.
It is embodiment. Yes, what hums throughout time and the universes is the wisdom of Love. It is that love that makes what’s everlasting real.
And what’s real?
This moment. And that one. The trees and the birds who reside in them. Your partner sitting in the chair across from you and my dog asleep at my feet.
Maybe this doesn’t sense. At times the everlasting doesn’t either. Yet, what has always been — and will always be — is what’s happening right now.
What is happening right now?
The Everlasting Love of the Holy Three!
I stood before this tree last September and wept. It was as if I was fully present to this rooted one. All of who I am stood before all of who they were. Nothing else mattered — because there wasn’t anything else but the ‘glorious mingling’ between us. Even now tears fill my eyes as I give thanks for this tiny tree and wonder if they are covered in snow up there in Alaska.
Everlasting — is ever present. Ever embodying. Never ending.
Dust to dust, after all.
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