Magnificent Magnolia
Class Film: The Tree of Life
March 23, 2016
Show me your roots
For then I would know
How you are able to stand
So tall, so strong, so still
All else is becoming
You teach me to be
In a universe of endless potentiality
Where all things are possible
And nothing can be controlled
You remind me to be
Patient, long suffering, content
A tree planted by a river
Standing in all seasons
To see what you see everyday
To plumb the depths of your ‘being there’
To sit under your shade
To climb you limbs
If only I could see your roots
Then I would know
The higher does not stand without the lower
There is no glory without suffering
No wholeness apart from pain
Embracing the heavens with open limb
You remain firmly grounded in the earth
The deeper you go the higher you grow
Reaching out to all things
Given to interconnectivity
By what blessedness am I received?
Or welcomed by leaves that forever stay green?
I come to you
Old sage
Magnificent Magnolia
We converse through metaphor
Our language crosses over, goes beyond
You tell me
‘Don’t just do something
Stand there
Be’
Yes, my spiritual teacher is a tree
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