Speak first to Your God when you wake

A Poem and a Prayer without Rhyme or Reason     Aug 2016     408 words

Speak first to your God when you wake,

say a blessing of thanks to the miracle of life,
the Gift which we can never repay,
just as we can never adequately thank our parents,
for all they have done to birth and to nurture us,
to dream and to live in that dream of all of our possibilities,

to give of themselves without reservation,
to respond to our tantrums and upsets with love,
just as the Great Spirit has done in the Creation of the Living Earth,
allowing all creatures to have a chance at life,
to know and to touch each other, to smell the wind and the rain,
to feel sunlight on our skin,
to see the constant motion of white changing clouds in the ever-changing sky,
and to be aware of our life and our small death,

to be aware of what it is to be human and connected
to an innumerable number of other humans in ways we cannot imagine,
and finally to know what it is to touch material reality
and feel the friction of living life as corporeal bodies in intimate contact
with all the marvels of our physical world,

a gift we will give up eventually when we return to the pure
spirit of the God's infinite universe and God's primeval energy,
and irrevocably join again with God's greater truth
of pure yearning and intention,
spirit seeking concrete form, desiring connection and contact
with the sweetness and honey of knowing life,

always pilgrims on a journey of faith, never reaching our limits,
but pushing the boundaries of our awareness,
and also enlarging our appreciation of the Gift,
constantly refreshed each day we get to draw another breath of the air we borrow from our brother and sister trees,
the breath which swirls around this fine earth,
assuming the shape of all our various forms,
our cousin caterpillars, the leviathan whales in the ocean,
the whirling hummingbirds, the buzzing bees,

God's infinite om of pulsating intention whispering in our primitive ears,

“love life, love the Gift you have been given, for it is precious and beyond price,
see the hand of God working to give you this opportunity to recognize this miracle that the hand of Man did not create,”

so speak first to your God when you wake and bless the Gift which we can never repay.