Cosmic Gardener – Cultivating a Life

Hurricanes. Flooding. Wildfires. Nature’s devastation.
Political discord. Racial unrest. Mass killings. Human destruction.
What to do? How to help?
Pray for loved ones? Pray for all?

Modern mystic and author Jan Phillips says that in this time of trauma overload rather than defaulting to a traditional mode of prayer (“Dear God, please help so and so…”) that she thinks “they are me, I am them” and through her actions “loves a little more out loud.” She believes that small acts of everyday kindness such as smiling more in the grocery store “lifts us all up, like the rising tide lifts all boats.” One-ing she calls it.

I think she may be on to something cosmic here, a sense of We-consciousness. We may be limited in our capacity to forestall nature’s wrath but we do have the power within us to reweave the tapestry of our human family, one heart, one hug, one buried resentment and one act of forgiveness at a time.

One-ing.

“The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.”
~Mother Teresa