For Sunday June 12th, 2022

Hello and a graciously summery good day to all. Kahlil Gibran's poem The River Cannot Go Back speaks to the human fear of death:

It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear
forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that's where the river will know
it's not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.

It also emphasizes what the ancient prophets tell us about meditation; in the deepest and most loving union, far from losing ourselves, we discover our deepest selves at the core of our being.

May we sit this evening for the 'becoming' which we are promised, finding our deepest selves, and fulfilling our journeys.

Thank you,

Richard