THE ORIGINAL CATHEDRAL
You don’t need to step inside a church building to come close to God. All you need to do is open your heart to the original Cathedral and realise you were never far to begin with.
Thanks to The Work of The People: words by Christine Valters Paintner
“May you find sanctuary among trees and stones,
and feel Earth preparing a place for you
to sit and breathe and be.
Let the long limbs of branches
form a canopy above your head,
let the hills open up a place for you to soar.
May the stones form an altar and
see how the sun makes everything shimmer and glisten
so that everything shines forth from within.
Let the tender vine climbing the trunk
show you what it is to reach to the sky,
let all the living creatures that gather,
winged and four-footed ones,
offer a new companionship.
All around you, see yourself as part of this glorious cathedral,
the lake and holy wells are the fonts of baptism,
the river rushes carrying gifts down from the mountains,
the oaks and sycamore create a sacred circle,
the face of the Creator incarnate and immanent
illuminated with each gaze.
Feel the veil between heaven and earth slip away
until you know this sanctuary of soil and sunlight,
listen to the sky whisper her secrets on the wind,
lifted by wings and song.”
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