Christmas dreamed me awake with images of newborns, whispering that we cherish each baby, as a Holy Infant, tender and mild.
We may forget as we individuate, become independent and adopt ideas of accomplishment, talent, and ownership that Holy, Perfect PRESENCE is always within us, at every stage of our being. We are always vulnerable, soft, and perfectly lovable. In our first six minutes, at 6 months or 60 years, we reach for connection; we long for recognition; we seek love to nourish us and we return it with gratitude.
Each of us is as miraculous as the baby Christians celebrate today. Our lives, however tangled, tortured, or tickled they seem, express the POWER and LIGHT that formed the universe.
May you give and receive COMFORT and JOY today and every day!
When the Force that explodes galaxies into being, constructs planets,
boils oceans down until continents emerge,
and molds eons of fantasied, fabled, and physical creatures
(to crash through centuries as prototypes of
what we pet and cuddle in our homes)
considers its Might, Glory and Omnipotence,
what else can It do to prove It is ALL Love?
It dissolves with need
into Its smallest, weakest, fragile form.
We welcome the infant.
We adore its soft, small, pure perfection.
We marvel at it as our self-made miracle.
We treasure it, tickle it, wrap ourselves around
tiny fingers and toes, clean, soothe, coddle, nurse, and exalt it.
Infants change our world, recalling the Joy of innocence;
the miracle of Recognition; the exquisite moment of
Union that led to its conception.
Our hearts melt the moment we hear a first breath,
the cry that calls for help or milk, for arms to cover and
comfort the shock of separation.
From that first gasping, vulnerable moment,
every celebration, birth to death,
recalls that great source of Power and Light
lives here, within us all.
Rejoice!
We are
Emmanuel.
~DonnaMarie Fekete
December 25, 2016
We may forget as we individuate, become independent and adopt ideas of accomplishment, talent, and ownership that Holy, Perfect PRESENCE is always within us, at every stage of our being. We are always vulnerable, soft, and perfectly lovable. In our first six minutes, at 6 months or 60 years, we reach for connection; we long for recognition; we seek love to nourish us and we return it with gratitude.
Each of us is as miraculous as the baby Christians celebrate today. Our lives, however tangled, tortured, or tickled they seem, express the POWER and LIGHT that formed the universe.
May you give and receive COMFORT and JOY today and every day!
When the Force that explodes galaxies into being, constructs planets,
boils oceans down until continents emerge,
and molds eons of fantasied, fabled, and physical creatures
(to crash through centuries as prototypes of
what we pet and cuddle in our homes)
considers its Might, Glory and Omnipotence,
what else can It do to prove It is ALL Love?
It dissolves with need
into Its smallest, weakest, fragile form.
We welcome the infant.
We adore its soft, small, pure perfection.
We marvel at it as our self-made miracle.
We treasure it, tickle it, wrap ourselves around
tiny fingers and toes, clean, soothe, coddle, nurse, and exalt it.
Infants change our world, recalling the Joy of innocence;
the miracle of Recognition; the exquisite moment of
Union that led to its conception.
Our hearts melt the moment we hear a first breath,
the cry that calls for help or milk, for arms to cover and
comfort the shock of separation.
From that first gasping, vulnerable moment,
every celebration, birth to death,
recalls that great source of Power and Light
lives here, within us all.
Rejoice!
We are
Emmanuel.
~DonnaMarie Fekete
December 25, 2016