Moved as though by ocean waves through the experiences of all i serve, & keep company & co-work with, how do i appropriately honor/not discount ALL griefs, inequalities, joys, celebrations, loves, losses, disorders, orders, hierarchies, and community complexities? It is this living of questions, considerable and perhaps unanswerable, that fuel me.
Today i am acutely aware of the sacredness of every single minute. We label times such as Easter, worship services, baptisms, etc. as "holy" or "sacred." They most certainly are sacred. However, i wonder how much we rob our lives of daily sacredness. I also wonder how much we discount the sacred moments of others in our prioritization of these holinesses.
Today, my partner & i had the absolute honor of Skyping in to a hospice room of a person we love, surrounded by a family in which we are lucky to be included. The call began with a scanning of the room of dearly loved ones. As we sang "Nearer my God to Thee" i was able to see my loved one in end-of-life care struggle for comfort & life & breath on my computer screen. What a gift to us to have been present for only a few moments.
What if, at the moment that we Skyped, i had instead returned the call to the colleague who needed to locate the paper on which the brochure for next week must be printed? Would it have robbed that moment of its holiness for me? Or for those in the hospice room?
It reminds me to ask: is any minute or moment anything less than sacred? In addition, is any one person's moment "sacred" over and above any other's?
Today, later, while washing dishes, i finally put words to a concept that had long concerned me: how dare we hierarchicize the holiness of time? As i thought of my beloved friend at the end of her life, i wondered: how do i bring the holiness of that hymn-singing moment into every moment of my life? In addition, how do i fully and authentically honor each moment of my life, and all other Lives and Life, as the truly holy gift that Life actually is?
How can we authentically fuel each other?
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