2024 Community Spiritual Practice

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In Praise of Water by Aryeh Shell

Oh beloved 

I long to sing out your infinite forms,

knowing that I can only,

will always fall short

but let it be a holy failure.

 

Let me trip over my words

and crack open my heart

and fall to my knees

with thirst,

and devotion

for you.

 

O beloved shapeshifter,

You come to me today,

shimmering.

You come flowing.

Sometimes,

you come devouring,

swallowing whole cities

with one gulp.

You come tender,

leaving salty trails

down my cheeks

You come soft as a quiver

in the corner of my eye

threatening to fall

threatening to rise,

threatening to wipe us all out,

If we don’t wake up and remember.

 

You come as trickster and magician,

evaporating dew into sky,

Poof!

you become cloud,

then slide down

again

as rain,

becoming

a soft drizzle here,

a monsoon flood there,

eliciting moans of bliss

and cries of despair.

In your absence,

Corn stalks wither

and fires burn

with rage.

In your presence,

stones yield.

Mountains become valleys

You carve caves

and stalactites

as you drip, drip, drip

through time.

You come as snowflake and avalanche

as ripple and riptide,

as tsunami and wave.

As river to the sea.

You come as the Tao.

You are the way.

and I drop to my knees

to pray

for a ceasefire.

 

Oh beloved, I have only just begun

to sing your names,

please accept these

humble bumbling

offerings

as they pour through me,

through us, now

as we sing,

as we grieve,

for if we can weep with praise,

then like you,

we too

will give life

everywhere

we go,

because we too,

are water.

 

 

 

 

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