TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN... THE ONE TO WHOM ALL PEOPLE PRAY.. the nameless one... the unspoken one... the source... the silence between breaths, the hub of the wheel... and every single spoke.. and eventually what some people refer to as death...

I give thanks. I take shelter in you whose center is everywhere, circumference nowhere. I bow in the wind of your passing, sing from the center of your song, find my way back to your heart which is no different than mine, we being one and the same, made of the same stuff. We are starlight. We are golden. I sing your praises every time I breathe and even when I don't, stunned by the beauty of it all, great tears and laughter welling up from within, my home, my manger, the pearl inside the oyster of this world. Here for such a short time, wandering in a field of wildflowers and delight, I am humbled once again by yet another chance to dance footless and free beyond the trance I lovingly call my life. Soul mate to myself, bum in a roadside temple, vagrant, fool, stunned by the kind words of strangers, I return to the moment -- THIS ONE -- in full glory.

Such a gift this life is. Such a grace. And all we have to do is receive it, heart open, arms outstretched, the bow of this moment only needing to be be tugged a little bit until the whole thing opens up. All of it, every moment Christmas morning, every day our birth. Call it whatever you want or never speak again -- it really doesn't matter. In the end (or is it the beginning?) there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, nothing to get, nothing to lose. Such is the great game of life. We seek and we search, but there is really no need. All of this coming and going, all of this hunting and pecking, all this drama of becoming enlightened or clear or high or better than we already are is really just the fun house mirror of our lives.

Everything we search for, we already have. Everything we think we need was already given to us a long, long time ago. All of the pilgrimages we think we need to take are just the journey from head to heart, not around the world, not to a cave, mountain, or esoteric realm. Dudes and dudinas. This. Is. It. Right here. Right now. The pilgrimage is much shorter than we think, the path only the one from head to heart, where we are touched, clutching nothing, when blood becomes ink and we discover there is nothing left to say, but say it anyway. Why not? Why not make a joyful noise? Why not sing... praise... dance... write... serve... heal... pause... move... give someone your coat or your hand... laugh... cry... praise... fly. We are here for such a short while. Let's do it with love.

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