For God so loved the world…
“Only when love enters the constructal givens of this world, and encounters the constrictions of choice, finality, separation, tragedy, betrayal, and heartbreak do its most tender and exquisite facets begin to emerge- qualities such as steadfastness, tenderness, commitment, forbearance, fidelity, and forgiveness. These mature and subtle flavours of love make no sense in a world where everything simply flows.”
- Cynthia Bourgeault, The Eye of the Heart
This week in the sauna: I have read for the “first” time, (after three bloody readings!), Cynthia Bourgeault’s Eye of the Heart.
This is just a brief note to say, a kind of metamorphosis is taking place, (particularly influenced by the chapter What are We Here For?), and is laying the ground work for seeing the folk opera songs I am about to release into the world, in an even deeper way. The “why” of making it.
The “why” has always been to bring slaking, quenching, holy well water, to the pain and the cacophony of all that opens and surfaces during a “great turning” or epoch-storm. And, like lady salmon wisdom, continue to barrel up the rapids, utterly in service to life.
And… the plot has thickened and been driven home for me… if it is here… in and through this material world… where the great Eros is transfigured in our finitude, and thereby consummated into Agape… then being in service to life just got a lot more real.
It has shown up nearly always in every musical project I’ve created in the last 10 years, but I’ve been slow on the uptake, and the songs themselves have always been ahead of me. It appears I’m just now catching up.
That’s all for now.
Lots of love as you navigate this hard and challenging field, where the most profound thing, perhaps ever, gets to happen,
Alana
Thank you Alana. I feel like I’ve been standing on the edge of a diving board the last few months and afraid to jump in. I’m going to listen to chapter 7 again now...