Envisioning Myself in the Unity of All Things

Envisioning Myself As a Part of the Unity of All Things

Inspired by a Celtic poem and a few lines of Torah

I am the wind blowing over the water,

the ocean’s swell, a billowing wave,

a hawk’s talon, a drop of dew on a leaf of wild clover.

the wisdom of the wise, the weariness of war,

the wonder of a forgotten lover’s kiss,

I am heat and light in the darkest spaces of the mind’s eye.

Surely my body is a sacred place. And I did not know it.

When the poet Amergin set foot upon the soil of Ireland he chanted a mystical lay:

I am the Wind that blows over the Sea,

I am the Wave of the Ocean;

I am the Murmur of the Billows;

l am the Ox of the Seven Combats;

l am the Vulture upon the Rock;

I am a Ray of the Sun;

I am the Fairest of Plants;

I am a Wild Boar in Valor;

I am a Salmon in the Water;

I am a Lake in the Plain;

l am the Craft of the Artificer;

I am a Word of Knowledge;

I am the Spear-point that gives Battle;

I am the god that creates Fire in the Cool Head of Man.

Genesis 1: “Now the earth was barren and without form, and the watery depths were covered in darkness, and the Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters.”

Genesis 28: The patriarch Jacob, fleeing in fear of his brother’s wrath, comes to a dark and desolate place and can go no further. He sleeps with a rock for a pillow and dreams of a ladder, with angels climbing up and down. When he awakens, he says, “Surely God is in this place and I did not know it.”