That Spark of Divinity is What Connects Us
My friend, Sylvia, and I were hanging out, enjoying the stillness of morning at my beloved lake just the other day. Of course, stillness is relative. Just because there was little human activity, no wind or rain or other distracting elements, does not mean it was truly still. The wildlife was very active, hunting and searching for breakfast. Birds of every variety entertained us. Fish jumped and gators, those silent predators, cruised along the waterway.
As we headed back to prepare for our day, we talked about what we'd like to "come back as". In my imaginings, I would return as a horse or a hawk. Sylvia said a bird, she didn't elaborate. Of course, since both of us are now at the human level, my belief system does not hold that I would regress in consciousness.
Conversation focused on divinity. What could possibly be divine in a mosquito or cockroach, Sylvia wondered. (I think I may have heard the word "evil" associated to those insects!) Personally, I believe everything and everybody has a spark of divinity within. Every blade of grass, every leaf on a tree, the worms that are trying to devour my tomato plants, everything. Even (and especially), my dog, Miss Jacks.
So if each and every living thing that breathes has that beautiful spark of divinity, then isn't everything and everyone connected? The shark to the cockroach to the butterfly to the young girls sold into prostitution to the irate driver sitting over there in the next car to the drug dealer to....obviously the list is endless. To you. And to me. We are all connected.
Because of that divine sparks. And we don't really have a choice. It just is.
This doesn't mean I want to cuddle up next to a rattlesnake, or a spider or...Hannibal Lector. And what about Ebola, or disease causing bacteria or...cancer. Is there a spark of divinity held therein?
I don't know. That's for you to decide.
All I'm asking is that you THINK about it.
As we headed back to prepare for our day, we talked about what we'd like to "come back as". In my imaginings, I would return as a horse or a hawk. Sylvia said a bird, she didn't elaborate. Of course, since both of us are now at the human level, my belief system does not hold that I would regress in consciousness.
Conversation focused on divinity. What could possibly be divine in a mosquito or cockroach, Sylvia wondered. (I think I may have heard the word "evil" associated to those insects!) Personally, I believe everything and everybody has a spark of divinity within. Every blade of grass, every leaf on a tree, the worms that are trying to devour my tomato plants, everything. Even (and especially), my dog, Miss Jacks.
So if each and every living thing that breathes has that beautiful spark of divinity, then isn't everything and everyone connected? The shark to the cockroach to the butterfly to the young girls sold into prostitution to the irate driver sitting over there in the next car to the drug dealer to....obviously the list is endless. To you. And to me. We are all connected.
Because of that divine sparks. And we don't really have a choice. It just is.
This doesn't mean I want to cuddle up next to a rattlesnake, or a spider or...Hannibal Lector. And what about Ebola, or disease causing bacteria or...cancer. Is there a spark of divinity held therein?
I don't know. That's for you to decide.
All I'm asking is that you THINK about it.
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