Somebody once said that "out of body experiences are fine and good but I would like to learn how to have an in the body experience". Thank you for your gentle invitation to inhabit our bodies to experience the sweet moments that are possible like your precious time with Aspen when it started to snow, and to be connected with the sometimes painful truths of what is happening around us; and how both the sweetness and the pain can be a call to action to do the healing work that is necessary for the earth that gives us our home and our lives.
I bookmarked this when it first came through my inbox, and this morning, have had the oppotunity to really read it through. The Faith Formation group at the Wakefield church is looking at Climate and Faith in a study from the SALT project, and your piece beautifully intersects with their work. I so appreciate your giving voice to the gnawing sense of dread and doom that can feel pervasive these days, and heightened by these strange and volatile weather patterns and events. No amount of joking or gallows humor fully dissolves this sense of dread. Good stories do, as well as throughtful writing, the wonder of a child, the sweetness of a winter snow, the emotions and expressions that come from the heart, something you do so well. As we go forward together, we may we do it in love, as you so heartfully remind us.
Somebody once said that "out of body experiences are fine and good but I would like to learn how to have an in the body experience". Thank you for your gentle invitation to inhabit our bodies to experience the sweet moments that are possible like your precious time with Aspen when it started to snow, and to be connected with the sometimes painful truths of what is happening around us; and how both the sweetness and the pain can be a call to action to do the healing work that is necessary for the earth that gives us our home and our lives.
I bookmarked this when it first came through my inbox, and this morning, have had the oppotunity to really read it through. The Faith Formation group at the Wakefield church is looking at Climate and Faith in a study from the SALT project, and your piece beautifully intersects with their work. I so appreciate your giving voice to the gnawing sense of dread and doom that can feel pervasive these days, and heightened by these strange and volatile weather patterns and events. No amount of joking or gallows humor fully dissolves this sense of dread. Good stories do, as well as throughtful writing, the wonder of a child, the sweetness of a winter snow, the emotions and expressions that come from the heart, something you do so well. As we go forward together, we may we do it in love, as you so heartfully remind us.