Day 136b: Love, ever on the Move … (September 12, 2019)
Though there was a surprising amount of early morning traffic already on the roadway, I found the walking smooth & easy; soon passing Dublin’s Calvary Church (now the Community Christian Church?) where I saw its main signboard boldly announcing “We Care; We Pray”; a galling proclamation that had me just as boldly asking out loud, “Well, which one is it? Do you pray or do you Care?”* And I found myself smiling once again as I walked on into the birthing morn …
*In any terms even remotely “enlightened,” caring must be active & selfless to potently be. In stark contrast, prayer is a desire evinced internally – often a desire that is selfish, or at the very least essentially self-reflective; a primarily passive exercise that by its very nature disallows the praying one from actively Caring for anyone else in that same mostly mental moment.
“Gracefulness is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating other humans, other animals and even inanimate objects with humble respect … And in this gentle light it was not so much any one example or any one event along my journey which I recollected as overly important, but rather the Flow of the Walk itself; the texture of its events and encounters. For deeper meaning is never found in the particular event or meeting but rather in the motion through the same – in the way we interact with the same and engage the same and tend the same and care for the same. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in any happenstance and say that it was the event itself; that it & it alone encapsulated the entire meaning of the interaction. And yet pilgrim and sage alike do not do this. For they and those like them know that it is the motion through every moment which was important. And so they ever remained in motion – just like I was moving now.” ~ inspired by Kamand Kojouri & Robert Penn Warren
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