Well, one possible way of reverence is always showering over a bucket.  Water!  A seemingly endless supply, but consider water. Each precious unique drop of water....

I'm mesmerized delighted by the idea that by learning to respect and appreciate water, among all the other natural graces of this world in which we live and thrive and have our being, we can reshape the challenges that face the twenty-first century -- and rejuvenate the planet.  

Some researchers say that water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. We ourselves are what, mostly water.  Dr. Masaru Emoto uses high-speed photography to prove that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated throughts are directed toward them.  The photographs of crystals exposed to thoughts such as love, kindness, peace, gratitude are vastly different than those exposed to harsh negative thoughts. 

Imagine.  Imagine!  This is more than just our own individual personal health that can be affected by how we "think."  What if these tiny drops of water, traversing the earth emptying into the seas, carry our prayers thoughts intentions to the rest of the world.  WOW.

We are alive.  But what if we were FULLY alive?  Yesss, that's what I wanna be!! 

Not scuttling about half dead, half awake, grumbling, fearing, worrying, shut down, skeered of what-might-be (not that I haven't ever been there, ooooh boy, the stories I could tell).   But I am getting better and better, sharper, keener, focused on having an increased ability to realign, rebalance, go with the flow. 

Something keeps singing to me, you know?, from down there behind my senses---from this vast place of peace and wellbeing and knowing. 

I remind myself now and then (ok ok ok, maybe like constantly) that all it takes to find that Place is to slow down for a moment forpetesake, be quiet, be still....  Quiet that chattering mind that hounds me to distraction with things that needtobedone like Right Now!  But when I am still, breathe deeply, fall back behind those poor overloaded-overcharged-overworked senses, fall into this enormous expanse that so feels so loving...up it bubbles surges:  a wild joyous sense of being fully alive! 

Fully alive in the Now.  Yes.  I wish to hang out in The Now, a perspective from which I can look out and see enormous beauty and kindness:  in nature, in you, in us.  Where luminous promise of all that is Good and possible sings to me, calls to me. 

How grateful, how filled with joy I am to have found my way to Gaia, and you.  We are so in this together.  Peace.  Joy.  Deep bows.

 

JOY!   Delight.  Deep reverence and appreciation for all whom I have met on Gaia; how you have and are expanding my awareness of who I really am! You send me over the moon!  You send me in delightful soaring to distant galaxies.  You leave me resting in deep peace, with a glowing radiant knowing of the Oneness of us, embraced in All that is Good. Yesssss.  Deep bows.....

Where I am right now??  Come visit! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Astronomy Today says near the outskirts of the small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602.  Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is featured in this stunning Hubble image of the region. 

The picture spans about 200 light-years, but a tantalizing assortment of background galaxies are also visible in the sharp Hubble view. The background galaxies are hundreds of millions of light-years or more beyond NGC 602.