Salutation #49
Hear me, O my nation! The LORD, thy God, is a God of relationships.
(This one it is difficult.
You must please bear with me.)
(Our one Human Habitation)
Cast adrift in this great void of exile time,
in a remote spiral arm of our one Milky Way galaxy,
but one upon one of more than a billion known galaxies
that lay spread in their great clusters
across the vast expanse of this visible universe;
upon the life bearing regions of a nameless yellow star,
lay a nameless, native planet of earth -
a world embraced by those familiar circling of seasons
held in their great cycles by the perennial sweep
of each our measured round
about a singular middle aged star we simply call, our sun;
a world sheltering these worlds within ourselves.
This is the reality of our one planetary home.
It is a reality - that -
while seemingly being at present - obscured -
by the prevailing darkness of these times,
is nevertheless the abiding truth that prevails
as the one common reality of our one planetary home.
We are upon this earth,
a world embarked upon an inevitable journey
toward an inescapable destiny - that -
while remaining hidden and unbeknownst
even to the understanding of many,
is nevertheless the unfolding of a reality - that -
has and ever will be - a truth - that is and must be shared
by and with all human beings
as the one common reality of our one human habitation.
Upon this, our home world,
we as human beings have pondered together
the questions of our existence.
Each these question as questions bent and inward sought
like answers seeking its way into thought.
Each these thoughts as thoughts we must leave afloat
upon the cumulative tide of each those silent moments
we spend sought in our seeking.
Each our seeking like our prayers - met -
by our ascending with each moment that rises and falls
with each moment - spent -
in the pondering of that great and unfathomable Silence,
awash upon a void,
hostile beyond hostile to all Sacred Life.
We are by what answers we bear for each other,
ever like the twinkling of each of those unseen stars
rising in their great arcs
upon the great ocean of our LORD's Eternity,
an inward part of the rising and falling of one firmament,
an integral part of the seasons of our one native sky.
These seasons of our one native sky
are the interior seasons within each and every human soul
that when perceived through the ebb and flow motions
of our coming together in our great belongings under the sun,
become the great celestial sweep of that one unseen cycle
rising from deep within the soul of all Mankind.
And it is this one unseen cycle
that universally attests to our common human witness
of that one great and unfathomable purpose of all creation,
the one great celestial cycle,
the one gathering of the All of Sacred Life,
and the one destiny toward which we are purposed
to steer the one common reality of our one human habitation.
We are like the questions that we ask,
borne by each our own common experience
of our one human habitation.
We are by what answers we bear for each other
carried afloat upon the great sweep of the physical motions
of this vast and empty realm of the visible universe.
For we are through each other,
our own seamless experience of our one common human reality,
the experience of our own human habitation.
Begun at the timeless birth of all human togetherness,
we are upon the earth, upon this one great and visible realm
of our one common human habitation - with each other -
as those worlds upon worlds
bound by our own true belongings to each other
as the one lineage of the generations of the children of Mankind.
And fallen into the darkness of exile time,
at the autumnal dusk of our faded Eden,
at the great scattering of worlds,
we were a togetherness never purposed to belong
upon a realm intended to be as divided, dark and barren,
as fallen, bitter and empty
as these shattered skies fallen upon our world.
When we, as human beings, gaze out into the universe
- above and around ourselves -
we must know in our heart of hearts
that even in the midst of all this emptiness and longing for life,
even in the embrace of all these questions sought
here in the darkness of exile time,
here at the great scattering of worlds,
if we are to understand the order of the physical stars
in those temporal heavens above and around our native of earth,
from clusters to galaxies, from star to star,
from worlds to their companion worlds,
we can easily perceive in each native region of space
what is reflected inwardly in our souls
like a primordial longing bound in companionships.
For there is only a gathering sense of belonging
in the all of visible creation and this sense of belonging,
reflected by the physical order
of even those shattered temporal skies
that lay barren about our native of earth
and amidst all of this exile darkness,
is the one order that have endured - and therefore -
should be the one truth that must have always to prevail
in the order of all of the visible universe.
For our one human habitation
is not comprised of individual human beings
ordered according to each individual self.
Our one human habitation is ordered
- according to the connections that we serve with each other -
as individual human beings
and those relationships borne in exile time and dimensional space
that we in our shared humanity
is purposed to serve with and for the All of Sacred Life
that we must in our own particular belongings to each other
responsibly carry out not as divided individuals but as united wholes -
ever as those nations dreaming together this time.
Therefore,
we must be able to perceive the reality of all of visible creation
with an understanding that bring us closer
to an understanding of what truth it reflects.
For our one human habitation
reflects the truth about our own persons as human beings
with and to each other - in God and Country, for God and Country.
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