“We have got to go wherever this happens.”

A meditation on awe, offered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg, SC on October 1, 2017.

The meditation may be heard here:

From the meditation:

“How is it
that this experience of our own lives
in deep alignment
with such beauty & danger,

something right here
and also far beyond us

raises up in us 
a desire
to share it
with others?

I don’t know.
But we should share it…

A full, 
beautiful, 
tragically finite, 
boundlessly infinite
life

full of lightning,
as if embodied,
full of rain & storm,

grabbing us by the hand
to step into
awe

& live
anew

however briefly
or forever.”

Reading of Mary Oliver’s poem “The Humpbacks” by Anne Waters.

Recording and editing by Ron Fowler and David Freeman.