Yesterday evening, heading north under a bruise-dark sky, we were blessed with the sight of a glorious double rainbow, arcing above the incandescent trees. Even with wild winds, storm threats and encroaching darkness, we were unable to escape the world's demands to be noticed in all its paradoxical grace and beauty. There it was, arrayed before us, thrumming with energy, dancing, singing to us in tones by turns coaxing and strident: "Lift up your eyes! Move beyond your small miseries! Open yourself to all this bedazzling abundance!"
Who were we to deny this? How could we turn away?
And so we watched, awestruck and open-mouthed, as the colours glowed ever brighter and the rainbow refused to fade and die.
Every turn of the road brought the possibility of a new vantage, a striking new perspective. My body, still clenched from the day's desk-bound parsimony, at last began to loosen its needless grip. Surely, surely there is a way to move more freely in the world, to live more fully into the presence of such arcing beauty. Surely there is a way to be drawn up and out, to feel more fully Creation's surrounding wealth, to draw on it and be sustained!
This morning is washed fresh. The air and ground and trees are spangled with leaves. The season is turning. I too, must turn. So it is that I step forward, reaching out my open hands. So it is that I raise my empty basket to the sun and gather a harvest of light. Such riches! I am surrounded by gold!
(An Beanneachd Oirbh / Blessed Be!)
3 comments:
What a beautiful, short, little sermon!
Thanks. I, too, needed that.
THank for sharing that beautiful space of time. And am happy to hear you can be open to the beauty and rise above the troubles. Beauty surrounds us. Sometimes it is the only gift we get but what a wonderful one!
How lucky you were to see it, and we're lucky to have you to share.
Have a great weekend!
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