AND WHERE IS SPIRIT FOUND??????

Kuhar Rockers 11/02

AND WHERE IS SPIRIT FOUND??????

Everywhere we go, we must be creators and guardians of sacred space.

Our communities are ravaged by spiritual famine.

And we must remember and recall for our communities what we already know:

that there is nowhere where Spirit is not to be found.

For thousands of years, we have had this one thing in common:

that we join in this one practice of performing ordinary worldly acts as worship.

We know, when we pull a baby into the light of the world, it is worship.

When we cradle a dying man in our arms, it is worship.

This is easy, and almost anyone could see it.

But we also know:

when we sweep the floor, it is worship.

It is worship when we dance, when we sing, when we light candles.

Weeding the herb garden, settling disputes, cooking rice, cooking rice again

-- all these things and a million more we have practiced,

always searching for the light of the Beloved within each moment,

always questioning, is it here?

Yes, it is. And here? Yes, here too -- And here -- and here --

Perhaps in ancient times there did exist "spiritual professionals," but we know that for contemporary priestesses/priests, the sacred work is interwoven,

as it must be, in their daily living.

Everywhere we go, into every common action, we weave golden threads of devotion and prayerful remembrance. It is not what we do that is holy, but the attitude, the spirit, with which we do it.

[These lines are paraphrased from "The Voice of the Priestess."]