“War is easy compared to life.”
Where one lives in position to the universe is beyond our knowing. Living on the earth we know neither if we are on the top or bottom of the little ball that orbits the sun. Depending where we are on the ball, we may experience life differently from someone elsewhere. Where we are should not change our purpose. My relationship to the Divine mystery takes my imagination from the edges of the universe to the smallest atoms put together within my own body and all things in between.

As my curiosity to know and understand life in all dimensions, and the fact as an animal with legs, ears, eyes etc. I search and wonder. Life in all its complexity is filled with joy, struggle, ecstasy, delight, sorrow. Sharing life with all life around me, I am part of an interwoven web, that for what I do, say, and act affects the whole. Holding such consciousness is for me why life is not easy. Death can bring relief from the struggle, but God the creator has set before us both life and death.

I will try to choose life for all, taking time to “figure – life out” as the alternative of dying which in itself may be easier. Our great work of life is to live fully. If we choose not to do the “great work” to nurture life, do we honour those who choose death and make it easier for a path of war? Do those who choose war actually make life easier for all? May your journey be in peace, love, hope and joy.

The human spirit lives by creating new ways to live. May you live fully today, so when you die others will know that you have truly lived. Being in awe of Creation, I will sit and sense the holy in all that is around me on this Earth Day of reflection.

Are we living the sacred myths

Pondering here in the hills; are we living the sacred myths. Why did President Obama decide to ride into Afghanistan as a messiah of peace on "palm sunday" as in the christian story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on his counter protest to the Romans and elite "taliban and rulers of what we want believe as the oppressors"?
In Canada the RCMP used the Easter long weekend to apologize to the mother of the innocent man killed by taser at the Vancouver Airport. Is this an example of the Roman soldier at the foot of the cross proclaiming they had killed an innocent man?
The unveiling events in Russia and Poland - have connections of which story of the Polish people will be allowed to be told. When someone comes along and trys to restate or reframe the actual story - the result often is termed 'tragic irony' and somewhere the truth is lost or changed for either the powerful or the underdog.
The one truth that I encountered this weekend was the statement "war is a lot simpler than life!" Are we only taking the easy way out of our "existential pain" by continuing a societal suicide?
As the holy fool I see strangely in the darkness. May we find ways to live in peace which is harder and lonelier but the right work of all.