Embracing the Divine

[Geee]

American Greatness

That we begin now, this springtime, to embrace the divine in our lives more fully, more resolutely, and more gratefully than ever, is an Easter and Passover prayer for all of us.

I celebrate the divine deliverance of their ancestors from Egypt. Sacred stories, sacred prayers, sacred songs and recitations and meals of communion—all combine in worship now, throughout these special days, of the Great Giver of Life.

And all around, an exultant natural world joins in. Life, in all its manifold glory, bursts forth in one grand symphony of adoration, its beauty and power abounding.

Through everything, an ethereal music weaves; and the closer we listen, the more we hear all those sincere voices from the Passover and Easter celebrations; all the birds and bees and blossoms and trees around us; every thought and intuition from every living thing that senses the beaming pulse of divinity everywhere.

It is now, in the dawn of spring, that the whole earth again sings the ancient hymn of praise:

 

O may Your glorious name be blessed

And exalted above all blessing and praise

You alone are the Lord

You created the heavens

The highest heavens with all their host

The earth and all that is on it

The seas and all that is in them. 

You give life to all things

And the host of heaven worships You

 

[Valin]

@Geee

Words that (literally) keep running through my head.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!