Only Love is Strong Enough
We walk into a New Year which is filled with the terrors created by the prevailing Story of Domination and Exploitation. Yet the very ancient seeds of healing and wholeness, which have lain dormant for centuries, are stirring underground. These ever-new, ever-eternal energies are too subtle to be caught in the web, the glare of news media and social media….yet they are powerfully awakening and a chorus of voices is singing this new birth into being.
“Wild, uninhibited love is the single force powerful enough to send us head over heels, out of our minds and into our bodies; to bring us home to our senses. The enchantments of the senses ~ the same magic used by the flower who seduces a honey bee to carry pollen for his petalled love ~ hope to entice you to love the world in ways you have forgotten. Carry this breath of devotion into the world….
To become bellows
that blow the spark of love,
kindling human hearts.
To set ablaze a love-fire
that burns out dead wood
~ domination, greed, exploitation ~
and leaves fertilizing ash.
To impregnate minds,
and midwife the birthing
of the new
To love the world is to walk the path of restoration and regeneration: a radical new-and-ancient relationship that sustains the one-being we have always been. And now we become again.” **
Let’s begin the New Year with Martin Shaw’s words ringing in our hearts:
“What we need is a great, powerful, tremulous falling back in love with our old, ancient, primordial Beloved, which is the Earth herself.”
With Love, Sharifa
** From my book A Litany of Wild Graces; click on the Books tab to order.