Shadow Players

We cannot look to the past to satisfy the spiritual needs of the moment. And we cannot revive past visions of the divine to satisfy the needs of our soul and stir our spiritual imaginations. Some of us need to re-create the divine in a recognizable image so that we can relate to the divine presence. And some of us are neither willing nor able to recognize divine providence in the fall of a sparrow. Some of us need cathedrals and spiraling towers, others respond to the barrel tones of thundering crescendos. And still others feel their souls come alive with sacred music, inspired words, inspiring teachings. Let the beauty we love be what we do, wrote the great Rumi. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. We can all find our own way to kneel and kiss the ground. We can do it with our bodies if we like, in our minds with tender words, or simply in our hearts with our most sensitive feelings. Any way that stirs the heart is the path to choose.