Calm and Bright

Sacred.  It cannot be manipulated by our thoughts, even when the thoughts are heartfelt.  It is here, continuously present even when we are not paying attention to it.  The sacred is at the most simple plane of being.  There are countless ways to come to it.  When we find it, we realize it has been looking for us too, for it is a mirror to our knowing.  The knowing it mirrors is the kind of knowing that is waiting there for us at the moment when we open to the sacred expressing itself.   Only to find, with exuberant inhale, that we are the expression of the sacred. 

Untitled  2013   by Glee 

When we find in our body a hunger, a thirst, a need to witness to the sacred, we are ready to experience expectant worship. In this place, there is an opening between the sacred divine and the song of our souls, and it can flow into the present like wind blowing through an opening in the rocks or through the ancient trees.  Something vibrates just enough, as if it is harmonic to the sacred divine moment we are seeking.  In this moment, we find ourselves in the act of vocal ministry. 

There is a moment, in the presence, when we sense an utterance forming in our throat, but it does not have a sound.  It has a vibration, an expression given to us from the sacred divine presence, and it is not coming out or staying in.  It is not silence or sound.  It is the utterance before the utterance. 

We are sacred.  Our words are sacred.  Our waiting is sacred and divine.  When we wait, we find it is waiting for us, too.