If when you go
into the desert
into the sweat lodge
on a vision quest
to drum or dance for days
on pilgrimage to a far, distant shrine
And encounter the Sacred,
receive a word, a vision
face to face
If your first, unspoken, response
is not: Oh! ... Shit!
Resume your quest
for the Sacred is:
more abundant
more challenging
more creative
more different
than we, on our own
can imagine.
Bring us more than we can imagine.
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The “more” list near the end originally read: abundant, creative, different, challenging. This is the order in which we noticed the movement of the Sacred. God’s solution to a problem is more abundant and creative than anything we could have done on our own. Then we went through some hard times and are emerging into creative times with transformative times on the horizon.
However, reading Meister Eckhart we noticed that it largely matched his Via cycle: Via Positiva, Via Negative, Via Creativa, and Via Transformativa, except for the order. So I changed the order to match his and it works.