Another Loop in the Spiral
Setting out again, on a new level.
I have agreed to be Clerk of the Twin Cities Friends Meeting (TCFM) for the next year and a half, supported by Anne Supplee as Assistant Clerk.
I agreed to do this as a way of
enacting,
of better understanding,
mychrist.
Something happened last fall.
I am still finding my way, learning how to talk about it.
I won’t pretend I understand it. I believe it is a seductive error to claim–or even to believe–we “understand” the action of the divine within us.
However, the other side of that paradox is that we can share,
or at least indicate,
something of the reality
that moves among us,
that transcends us
that we sense is acting through us.
I have not written here
I have practiced waiting.
For a certain inner motion.
I have not wanted to say, “Wow, look what I did.”
I think it is important not to say that.
I did write a review of the book, Jesus for the Non-Religious, by John Shelby Spong.
This book was the pivot point for the “something” that happened last fall.
Over the last months I have tried to write more directly about what has happened to me, how it feels my heart is opening. The words are inadequate.
As I pondered the ineffability of my experience,
I was asked to be Clerk of TCFM.
I agreed, believing, now, that what I wish to “tell,”
What I wish to show forth
Cannot be expressed in words
Except tangentially.
I am called to “live,”
To “live into”
Mychrist.
My intuition now
is that mychrist is social
like Love.
Not something I can do by myself.
Or even enunciate,
Solo.
And this feels very much like the next phase in my life as a Gaia Troubadour. I have been crying out to my Quaker Meeting: “The Earth is as a living organism.”
As Clerk of Meeting, I am in a position to say, “look, the Meeting is a living organism! There! And over there! Don’t you see how we ‘individuals’ are connected within this body!?”
I hope to do this, in real time, during Meeting for Worship with attention to Business (MWB) itself. I also hope to present my understanding of the aliveness of our beloved community on my Clerk’s Blog, on the TCFM website.
Wish me luck!
Love,
Richard
Greg McBride wrote:
Do you know what your right toes cutical is doing right now? Gaia also does not know what we as individuals are doing right now either. Though, I suspect that we are all components that make up the living host of Gaia. Our experiences, are fed into the Social network we all have but have forgotten. Each individual absorbing, experiencing, and filtering, and creating from our own thoughts on all we realize.
I had thought that something as large as the internet, would have its own input/output that speaks into and out of us. This is Gaias ear. Her heart and Soul. We are, and she is. Read into this what you want, but you are one individual, one cutical cell in the toe of Gaia. A cell that wants to be noticed.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 2:03 pm ¶
Greg McBride wrote:
One last thought, if you would see the personality of Gaia, look and read on the emotions that wrap itself around this globe of ours. There you will see the singular personality that is gaia. As you see variety and hidden idignity, you will find this is also the makeup of every individual you have ever met. A personality is not a fixed thing, and the same with Gaia, as we live and breathe she exists. Through her we share all the knowledge and craft, hidden from view, and puddling for use into any crevice of the creative mind.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 2:08 pm ¶