The Witness Whose Life Is the Testimony
Malkuth of Hod Day 35 of 50 · Presence within Splendor
The Witness Whose Life Is the Testimony
The thirty-fifth saying of the Living Christ:
Testify to the wonders of the kin-dom, inviting all to the great dance circling the One who Is. Keep Life at the center, and let your steps be light. Woe to those who rush to the center to be seen; they block the Light from reaching the ones who struggle with the steps. The true dancer is the one who holds the hand of the weary. The best dancers support those around them. The ones in the center have neglected their inner life. When in the great dance, the Life flows through you. It fills your heart and keeps your feet on the way. A dark heart stumbles in the dance. The broken-hearted are lifted up by it. The living testimony dances with the beat of life. When it does, it shines with the same light as Life itself.
The dance of life is not burdensome. It can be danced with your children and your elders. Be wary when your labor breaks the rhythm. When the steps become too heavy for the small, the dance has lost its way. If you only dance for the holiday, it cannot heal you. If the holy days rob the joy from the dance, the music is drowned out. The heartbeat of life is constant and always with you. If you only hear the music at the feast, but not in the field, find a way to quiet your life or take the time to listen for it.
The testimony that can be lived on sacred ground that fades on the city streets has lost its roots in the soil of life.
The living testimony is a life whose presence is a form of holy attention. It does not have to be spoken often because it lives in the community through you. It is revealed in how you listen, how you speak, and how you dance through the difficulties in the path. Testimony does not grasp. It holds beauty and hardship with open hands.
The witness does not carry what they have seen as a burden or mission. They live it as the nature of the world. In the heart of the witness, the word becomes flesh. They behold the Glory and live it into the world, until the witness and the word can no longer be pulled apart.
This is the community whose common heart is a living witness to the world it inhabits.
Be shaped by the Glory and grace all around you.
The testimony and practice you have carried becomes the very marrow of your bones. Seeing truly and living truly become one and the same.
When you become a living witness, you heal the gap between what you have seen and how you live. Your soul is restored. The world is transformed not by shouting, but by lives that witness to the life of the world whose existence is a word spoken by the Holy.
Live the glory you have seen, and let that be enough.
You were not born broken. Fifteen billion years of the universe’s grace says otherwise, and this book shows you how to live from that. Creation’s Paths: A Creation Spirituality Primer, foreword by Matthew Fox.
