"Limitless undying love which shines around me..."

"...Sounds of laughter, shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me

Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on
across the universe..."
- The Beatles
"Across the Universe"

At the time, I wasn't really sure why this song spoke to me tonight but it did.  I was outside in the yard with Mollie when suddenly the sky grew dark, the wind began to blow, and the tiny white blossoms from the towering black locust trees rained down on me...and around us...like a benediction.  

I suddenly felt so at one with everything around me.  My skin did not define where I stopped and the rest of the world began...it was just a frame for one of the images I included in consciousness, but was not the sum total of my being.  I was as much the locust blossoms as I was my hand...no more...no less.  I was one with every single molecule of each idea, concept, and image I was experiencing.

I threw my arms wide and spun around while the blossoms swirled around me and caught in my hair, the wind ruffled the hem of my skirt, and the grass kissed the arches of my feet.  Every movement of my body was a molecular dance of intention shifting space within and around me.  Choreographed by a divinely intelligent Creator, painting the space I shared with trees and blossoms and grass and air in broad strokes of color, movement, texture, and form. 

I could see with such clarity that each and every molecule in the universe existed at the behest of God.  Each expressed conscious alignment within Mind's direction.  Each enjoyed the peace of knowing it was being divinely guided every moment, and could enjoy the dance that the winds of Spirit (Pneuma) carried them on as they fulfilled their purposes as the manifestation of Love.  A collaborative effort of molecules that coalesced as a body for helping a stranger, a plate of food for feeding the hungry, a tree for giving shade to the weary, pages of a book for inspiring the reader searching for insights. 

Each molecule a divine idea...the expression of the All-in-allness of God's being.  Each molecule fully capable of being whatever Love needed it to be at any given moment, so that in uniting with other divinely purposed molecules a world of wonder, delight, joy, affection, beauty, peace...could be painted on the canvas of being.

As I raised my face to the sky...catching petals from locust blossoms on my tongue...I felt as though I was taking communion from a divine hand.  And when the rain started...drop by drop falling on my face, streaming down my temples, washing thorugh my hair...that water turned into the wine of baptism, brotherhood, benediction.  I felt oneness with, and "across the universe".  

I couldn't help but remember something Mary Baker Eddy writes in Pulpit and Press:

"Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically number one, a unit, and therefore whole number, governed and protected by his divine Principle, God? You have simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity with your divine source, and daily demonstrate this. Then you will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillion in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific Principle. A dewdrop reflects the sun.  Each of Christ' little ones reflects the infinite One, and therefore is the seer's declaration true, that 'one on God's side is a majority.' A single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or crown the tree with blossoms.  Who lives in good, lives also in God, — lives in all Life, through all space."

or as Kenny Loggins sings in Conviction of the Heart, "one with the earth, with the sky, one with everything in life...."

Enjoy both songs tonight...and feel the breath of God whispered against your cheek with each soft breeze...
Kate
Kate Robertson, CS

"Across the Universe..."

"Words are flowing out
Like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass,
They slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy
Are drifting through my opened mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
- John Lennon

I thought today that I might post, with permission, the substance of an email I received from a dear friend who was a camper at Adventure Unlimited for a number years before becoming a C.I.T. (Counselor-in-Training) last summer, Cassidy.  Cassidy is…well, Cassidy!  There is no one and nothing like her in my experience.  She is an original.  She loves…period.

Although she has yet to graduate from high school, I never find myself thinking of Cassidy in terms of being a teenager, a child, or woman…I think of Cassidy as my friend, a trusted colleague, a wonderful co-conspirator, someone whose thoughts I value.  Cassidy has taught me much about personal integrity…being true to oneself with unflinching courage.  She is creative, kind, refreshing, quirky, strong, flexible, deep, funny, inspiring, and beautiful.  I wouldn't mind being like Cassidy when I grow up...someone authentic and true to who God has made me to be.

Here are the words that flowed out from her heart "like rain into a paper cup" recently.  She has graciously…and generously…given me permission to post it here.  I think her thoughts stand alone,  so I will copy them below without comment:

"I was reading Eat, Pray, Love [Elizabeth Gilbert] like it was my only breathing apparatus in the vacuum of what was my Christmas vacation. It is so refreshing to read or hear about spirituality and the ideas, dwellings and experiences of those who have nothing to do with Christian Science.

This author writes volumes on meditation and fervent prayer. Meditation is a form of quieting the self and not exuding anything but your ability to stick a funnel in your forehead and say to God 'I'm here, You're here too', and listen and let it come to you.

I believe that Cap Andrews (the founder of Adventure Unlimited) had these meditations in that submarine, and what better place to find quiet than three miles underwater?  I believe that Christian Science is a grand mixture of the best parts of all religions. Except maybe the Davidians and other radical rituals like cannibalism and the like.

Prayer is always healing. Self-realization -- at all times, at every time knowing who and where you are in the huge fabric of this quilt we all make up…down to the stitches inside you -- is essential.

I feel so oriented now, Kate. I want to make Christian Science, Prayer, so accessible and natural that falling into the absolute mantra of perfection is the all, the only…Our timekeeper, our mentor, our friend, our lover, our teacher, our bridges our mountains!

To Love, to See Completeness, to Know Completeness, to Heal. I am in Love with this concept! I am in Love with Love! Hooray! YES!

Thank you!
I Love You!!
Cassidy"

Thanks Cassidy…I love you too…
Kate