Body and Soul

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, October 16, 2005

We have to know the great universal Love first
before it can flow through us.
We have to come face to face with the beautiful things,
the dappled things and mild,
which keep the fire warm inside the heart,

and set the soul to burning.

We have to listen with open ears to the musical things,
the stirring chords and gentle,
which make wide the path where the Spirit will flow.
We have to engage with open minds the inspiring things,
the uplifting thoughts and profound words,
which deepen and strengthen our connection with Truth.

Doing all these large, very important things
means doing well those smaller, daily things
which open the heart and ears and mind
and set the love-catching soul in motion.

That means paying attention to these bodies of ours,
these bodies all around us;
they are, after all, the vessels of the soul.
We need to pay attention, and honor them,
even when it might seem easier
just to disengage and run,
or jet around through the cosmos
as an enlightenment-enveloped soul,
pure air and light and spirit.
But we're not.

So Mary now meets Martha
as soul meets body, and and bliss can befriend duty.
And in the holy union of the two
that whom we can be shall yet be born:
and through these beings earthy and spiritual,
Holy Love can flow and spread
and be shared by all the world we embodied ones touch,
each day of our living upon this Earth.

jbs
11/28/98 - 2/27/00 - 10/16/05

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