![]() ![]() This morning I heard the news that 22 major business and civil society leaders have signed a letter to heads of state requesting a legally binding goal of a Net Zero world economy by 2050 be part of any agreement made at the Paris climate talks. Last night the City Council of Portland, Oregon voted 5-0 to get out of the business of transporting fossil fuels. ![]() Since the time President Obama announced against Keystone XL, evidences of a conspiracy for goodness are everywhere. We can either conspire (breath together) the fresh air of good or cough and sputter with pollution in our lungs. As life is breathed into the lungs of existence, our human purpose becomes patently clear: we can breath in and out with the yearning for good. For most of our purposes here, the Sacred Myth is much simpler than it’s usually portrayed: All of life is born in goodness, from the ground conceived in very-goodness. In and amid our best laid plans and Creation’s randomness is the yearning for good. It helps me grasp the meaning of whatever it is that originates and evolves, lives and moves, that infuses and occupies the Sacred Stew of life on this small spinning rock. This poem is as good a description of the Divine energy as any I know. That causes the grasses to laugh with the joy of life. ![]() I am led by the spirit to feed the purest streams. I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits. I am the breeze that nurtures all things green. I am the one whose praise echoes on high. ![]()
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