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Sacred Space and Open Land

I have been helping Hannah with her newborn. Hannah could be my granddaughter and on the surface we're totally different people having lived distinctly different experiences yet we have found so much common ground we "find each other in the silence between the words":

May we find each other in the silence between the words.
May we heal the loneliness of our expertise with the wisdom of our service.
May we honor in ourselves and all others
the deep and simple impulse to live,
to find sacred space and open land.
May we remember that the yearning to be holy is a part of everyone
and the only hope for the next thousand years.

We are both inept at "social conversation" and we have a tendency to just blurt out what we are thinking or feeling. While being blunt is not accepted in the social finesse rule book, it gives us the ability to honor the impulse to live and let live, to hold tightly our own space and allow open land for I cannot be honest in my feelings and thoughts without allowing Hannah the same privilege. We are accepting of our differences and are open to learning from the other's experiences.

Whenever a young person is willing to accept the merit of experience, they are taking the fast track to developing their own wisdom instead of having to make all the mistakes made by those preceding them. They are way ahead of the game. When an older person is allowed insight into the yearnings of the young, they are revitalized; they are renewed and together the young and the old can work to become the hope of the future instead of drearily retracing the same old footsteps.

Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children..." --Titus 2:3-4 (The Message)

Jane Mullikin
Spirit - Finding Hope in a World of Uncertainty