By Alia Stewart-Silver
Recorded by author
Photo credit Hayden Shaw
Sacred life,
you have formed and informed me in all ways:
…………..the words on my lips, your song
…………..the love in my hands, your prayer
…………..the visions of my mind, your conceptions.
Forged through billions of years of creative emergence, this body is
…………..so radically complex in its faculties
…………..so intricately adept in its equilibrium
…………..so wildly equipped in its adaptive intelligence
that all I can do is marvel in awe at the myriad forces
that conspire together harmoniously across deep time
to gift “me” to myself in this moment of incarnation as
…………..a brief yet timeless vessel of experience
…………..a conscious node of the evolutionary process
…………..a seed of possibility endowed with the impulse to blossom.
As a seed of possibility,
I am a living bridge between what has been and what is arising;
infused by the wisdom of the ancestors and
beckoned ever forward by the future ones.
May my life carve a pathway of meaning and sanctuary
…………..for all who feel lost and alone in these tumultuous times of Great Unraveling.
…………..May my heart join with the many others breaking open across the globe
…………..as fuel for The Great Turning of our times.
May I wield both …………..
…………..the humility to kneel down before the cosmic forces that have shaped me and
…………..the dignity to rise up to take my rightful place as a child of creation:
………………………..grieving all that must be mourned as a testament to what matters and
………………………..taking up that which is mine to carry as a joyful honor.
Sacred life,
may this sovereign life serve as a living prayer
rooted into time and place
whispering of the wild possibility
that you might be stewarded ever onward
through the growing of a life-sustaining world
for all our relations now and yet to come.
Alia Stewart-Silver is a Co-Founder of SEEDS (School for Ecocentric Evolution & Design Strategies), a grassroots organization striving to help catalyze the emergent shift in consciousness toward a life-sustaining and life-enhancing world. Alia weaves together the diverse threads of her training background as a licensed therapist, restorative justice circle-keeper, permaculturalist, Vision Quest guide, energy healer, and cultural visionary. Alia applies this breadth of experience to offering sliding scale holistic counseling, facilitating group learning and justice spaces, guiding earth-based rites-of-passage ceremonies to support psycho-spiritual maturity, and collaboratively designing sustainable cultural and agricultural systems as innovative models for place-based regenesis. Connect @jointheseeds.com.
Recorded by Rebecca Selove