Elephant’s Heart
In touching each part
Tail, leg, trunk, ears, tusk
We can tell each other more
More what we think
About the elephant
More about what we think
the elephant needs
More about what we think
The elephant IS
Yet in Being
Being in the room with the elephant
Sitting together with our open hearts
May we each come to know more deeply
The elephant’s heart—
The Great grief, The Great joy of
Our shared Aliveness
May we each come together to love more
To be more in Love WITH Life itself
Beyond our time
Beyond our minds
Beyond our bodies of spirit;
Each with our own unique door to the divine
May we rise with our Unity of heartmind
Our inter-spiritual resonance
of compassion for all of Creation
May Love be our way of inter-being,
and inter-being be our way to Love
**inspired by Interfaith climate circle sharing a Quaker silent prayer offering where I felt my body becoming the elephant’s sway, her dance and by the parable of blind men each touching different part of elephant, thinking they know what the elephant (God) is. Parable origins ancient Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sufi texts
