New words are coming into our vocabulary all the time.
In the last year I’ve learned two that break my heart.
They are omnicide and eco-anxiety.
Omnicide: the
destruction of all life or all human life
Eco-anxiety: extreme
worry about current and future harm to the environment caused by human activity
and climate change.
They happen to be names given to something I’ve felt, known,
seen, intuited and experienced. It even felt like ‘an elephant in the room’
experience for me, especially in spiritual circles.
We are in what scientist call the sixth extinction:
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or
Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the
present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called
Anthropocene) as a result of human activity.
Our soil, sea and air are now so toxic that humans and animals have a hard time surviving in healthy ways.
I could go on, but you might be wondering by now:
”Where is she going with this?”
“How metaphysical is this?”
“How is this IN principle?”
To me it is actually an invitation to turn deeper within. We teach as within, so without. As without, so within………To notice how we feel, what believe and ask ourselves what is mine to be and do?
It’s a rich practice to hold life in both/and (rather than either/or). Holding opposites and find oneness in a personal intimate way allows us to serve in more personal and poignant ways.
For me holding both grief and love and seeing them as one
instead of separate has allowed me to go deeper into my consciousness and
remember what is mine to do and be.
It has actually become living my life in a simpler way:
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Being in the present moment
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Listening to my intuition and following
it
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Serving and loving my fellow human
beings and our beloved Mother Earth and all its creatures….to be a channel for
Love, Light, Peace, Power, Joy, Beauty and Wisdom (our beloved seven qualities
of God per Thomas Toward)
I realized that if I stay in eco-grief I have forgotten who
and what I really am: Truth
The forgetting is the first cause of omnicide.
The remembering is Joy.
I choose JOY
I chose my broken heart as an open heart.
There is so much to be grateful for.
The simple practice of gratitude actually heals and not just
me….for the practices manifest beyond me.
The birds in the tree, the flowers in the garden..
The person who I greet in the street and…..
“It is not joy that makes us grateful.
It is gratitude that makes us joyful.” Anonymous
Rev. Dr. Frankie Timmers is the Spiritual Leader of Center for Spiritual Living Morristown
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