"A courtyard window
This tree stands, remembering
each rooted here."
What is sacred?
A church or mosque with walls that hold space for us to be still in our moments of thanksgiving and supplication?
A face or body of a loved one that brings joy to our hearts simply at their appearance in our moments?
A vision of the Mother holding our brothers and sisters nurturing them 'til their death?
The land that gives crops to feed a family, a crop deemed deadly to those who consume it?
A country that expels a monk because he teaches a philosophy of peace?
The ruins of our ancestors telling stories of their journey here in the space in which we walk?
Hunger that kills our children when the rains don't pour to bring the maize to us?
The kiss of a child, gaze of a lover, embrace from a friend?
The rivers that run our souls to the oceans to evaporate to the spirit world?
The loss of the life path we have walked with security?
Sacred�all sacred and of One
The winds of time~~sacred in their kiss
Sends each of these gifts
Of living
And death
Our Prayer, giver of life and death,
Is that we understand the sacredness
Of each of your gifts to us
Sbec created for a friend facing the challenge of knowing sacredness in his loss
Created in the Joy of Sharing September 2001
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