Seeing Who is with Us and Celebrating

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Last Wednesday evening we meditated on the hopeful and challenging Hopi Elder's Prophecy issued in 2000.

One takeaway for many of us was our need for steadfast and loving community so we can not just survive but actually live fully in difficult times.  In the prophecy, this is expressed in the exhortation to "see who is in [the river] with you and celebrate."

I was reminded (yet again) of a song I first heard while traveling on a train.  A man a few seats back started playing guitar and singing a beautiful and poignant song that was a real balm to what was, at the time, a very achy soul.  And so I met Lee Koch, the musician and songwriter, and his song Dreams Awake has given me that same sense of hope ever since that day in 2009.  It embodies how I feel about the Sacred Journey group and other communities I'm involved with who hold a vision for the world of love, grace, justice, and acceptance that seems entirely contrary to what we witness on a daily basis.

So many times during our Sacred Journey together I have thought of this song, and I am glad to be able to share it on this blog.

Here is the original recording of Dreams Awake from Lee's Bandcamp Website.