The Saints are calling

The music of the Litany of Saints was in my head this morning - this is the result.  A bit more jumbled and raw, but it insisted on being put here as is.

The Communion of Saints is calling - calling me into communion with them as we raise our hearts and thoughts in humility to Our Creator, Our Sustainer, Our Joy - in all its mystery and wonderfulness. We seek to describe that which cannot be described. What Is, and Is Not, to put a more Zen-like approach (I think - as I seek there as well). Yet what draws us to pray with, and to, ask for their prayers - these saints who have gone before? Is it because we are all brothers and sisters, united in both our humanness and our divinity? That we have all, consciously or not, pondered deep within ourselves the why and the how? Seeking to answer questions which have no answer - yet we continue to seek. What is it that draws us? More than love, I think, although that is a great part of it. Love given, and received - in that we imitate the saints, drawn and intrigued by their journeys through this Great Mystery - sensing even as we read their descriptions that they as they wrote knew it was woefully inadequate in describing what they sensed, felt, even emotions and sensations indescribable.

More than love, more than relationship - things we all seek in our human existence - we seek union with eternity, the Eternal - that from which we spring and to which we return. Yet why, why do we ‘suffer’ through this separation from the Eternal if we are destined to return to it. (Recycling of the Spirit the eco-feminist might say!) Is it because, in being incomplete because of this yearning, this need, this desire, we actually make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Would there, could there, exist that very yearning, need, or desire if we were constantly a part of the Whole? The Whole could never experience these things without the separation; and all the pain, anxiety, and unsettledness is merely the reflection in the opposite direction of these same emotions, desires, feelings. If the Whole were truly whole these sensations too would never have been known to the Whole.

The Saints are calling - to each of us, saints in our own way - calling us to the journey, to seek the undefindable, to describe the indescribable, to understand the un-understandable. To do this is to enrich the Whole, the Whole from which we come and then return to - to provide It with all those unique things each of us goes through as humans - enriching It - making it evermore more than just the sum of its parts.

Yet the saints still call - call each of us to react with joy, wonder, and thankfulness - that we ‘endure’ all this - without the separation from the Whole, we could not have these experiences - experiences which enrich us as well as the Whole. Even those we find most painful! We should try to rejoice that we have been granted something unique.

And as we rejoice in the richness of these experiences the Whole rejoices too - sensing how it is constantly becoming more and more - expressing that even more things of beauty and wonder that it presents us. Leading us to more wonder and joy; leading to more wholeness for the Whole; leading to the expression of even more wonder and joy; leading to ...........