At one with creation

At One With Creation

Oh, to join the whale on a silken cruise.

To dance with the dolphin

and sing their songs of clicking joy.

With the skylark soar on wind and breeze

and fill the air with melodious song

comparable with the greatest symphonies 

of man's composing.

To run with deer over moor and fell.

Swim upstream with salmon 

homeward bound.

See the beauty of gossamer wings of a butterfly.

Dancing in thermals upward flight.

Smell the scent of petals, fragile and glowing.

See rainbows arch across the sky.

Myriad dancing flakes of silent snow.

To feel the beat

at creations heart.

At one with all around.

And feel the inner pulse

 enveloped in its peaceful shroud of life.

Humans oftimes bound on paths of ruin,

destructive avenues of death.

Imbalance made in selfish search.

Can creation lead us back

and show again the pastures green

and open Edens Gate?

That man might once again 

bring peace to all creation.

In dominion yet not the dominator,

a fellow worker, not a destroyer.

Maybe then again will earth shout loud,

Amen, so let it be.

Let All Creation Shout Amen

Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like roaring waters and loud peals of thunder, shouting.

Rev: 19: 1-6

On a very personal level, I share some memories. They are very much a part of my personal journey but I hope they stimulate something and even some possible deep consideration.

It all began for me when on my fortieth birthday my daughter responded to some comment I had made about people who went out running or jogging. I said that every person I ever saw indulging in such pursuits always reminded me of the monks who, in a desire to get closer to their god, whipped themselves, or wore hair shirts that aggravated their skin causing great discomfort. It seemed to me that to do such things in the name of love or spiritual growth seemed counterproductive.

I watched as joggers pounded the streets in the chase to own the body beautiful, never a smile on their faces, in fact, it seemed the very opposite, they looked positively ill as they pounded the byways huffing and puffing. Here was a new religion, worshipping their god, that of fitness and beauty. I, in a very condemnatory fashion, made comments such as. "If they spent just a bit more time looking after the inner being they just might, in fact, find a real beauty that would shine from their whole being."

Then I took up running and at first, all my worst fears were confirmed. It was indeed a painful experience, though it did not have to be. Had I kept myself fit in the body as I had tried to in my mind things would have been so different.

One day all things came together, the pain disappeared and I was running pain-free and positively enjoying it. Then came the added bonus, I felt at one with the world around me.

One morning I turned a bend in the track to be hit with a scene of such beauty that I can still in my mind experience it today as I recall it. There was a bank covered in snowdrops as if covered in the real thing, it looked as if it had snowed on just that banking. Running around in the flowers were a number of rabbits that looked as though they were being invigorated by the scent of the flowers. In the field, there were sheep with newborn lambs. I felt a sadness in the knowledge that in a few months these same animals would be on dinner plates, but for the moment I was sure that if they could talk to me they would have said that it was a marvellous day and I would have agreed with them.

I am older now and running is a part of my history where it will probably remain. Now I walk in the world of beauty and still feel invigorated and refreshed by it.

There is a wonderful peace and calm that comes to the inner being when we are at one with the creation that can be found nowhere else. It is sad that we are making a seemingly energetic attempt at destroying the very thing that gives us existence. If we could somehow convey to our fellow beings the beauty and health that is there to be found generations yet to be might also find this joy.

For the beating pulse of nature surrounds us and brings us health vitality and inner peace that comes to us of its own volition and costs us nothing, but our time and understanding.