An die Freude

Be still, agitated spirit, and quiet yourself, well-nourished voice of contempt, critique, judgment and derision. The world needs to sing its ode to joy, inner light bursting forth in molten lava, shining rivers, great trees and tiny, bee-kissed flowers. The world needs us to sing, inner light radiating out from center, crying: Love!

Deep, wide, whole and expansive, loving joy, joyful love heals all broken places, transforms all that is and will be. Places everyone and everything into right relationship, no longer me and you, us and them, but a multifac(et)ed and infinitely gorgeous I: We!

May it be so.

Amen

With gratitude to Friedrich Schiller for his poem, Ludwig von Beethoven for his symphony and Elizabeth Bennett for her skill, care and artistry in creating Triptych (Creation, Love, Music), 2017: