The Covenant at Its Root- The Sacred Yes at the Center of All Things
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The Covenant at Its Root- The Sacred Yes at the Center of All Things
The forty-first saying of the Living Christ as spoken by Mary Magdalene:
Blessed is the Light that shines within our spirit and the Word that whispers in our heart. If we only listen to this voice, we cover our eyes so we cannot see the Glory and Presence of God all around us. The testimony of our heart must greet the witness of others. In the dance between them, the truth resides. If the covenant prevents people from talking to others within or those beyond the community, it is not the covenant of love and liberation. Our covenant does not exist to serve itself alone, but to be a blessing to all life. If our hearts fold into themselves, then the Word, Glory, and Presence cannot flow out to bring life to all.
Our covenant is deep, rooted in the Spirit and the land. When those roots are tended while the vine withers, the whole plant suffers. The covenant does not demand, it offers, and it asks. It gives life. It does not consume it.
Send your roots deep into our foundation, so you will no longer practice the covenant, because you are the covenant. No longer do we agree to the work, or maintain the covenant with effort. It breathes in all we do. It shapes every experience. It flows through our giving and receiving unseen and unheard, like the breath.
We walk together with the Divine and our testimony as we circle within the song of life. Our righteousness is not a crown, but our nature as a branch of the vine.
Return to the knowing that was within you before you sought to name it.
Recover the living wisdom at the root of the covenant that will outlive every word and language. We are healed as we grow from the ground of being. Our covenant is not created, earned, or maintained. It is lived. It is the bond between the Holy and all that is.
Let us heal our souls in the knowledge that we are held in the heart of creation. May our communities mend the world by inviting all into the dance that has no end around the roots of creation, so all may join in the ever-new creation of the world.
Let our word be:
I have seen.
I am held.
The world is a blessing.
Go and be this blessing to all.
You left the institution but not the longing. Creation’s Paths: A Creation Spirituality Primer is for everyone who still feels the sacred moving through the world and wants a language worthy of that feeling.
