WATER Meditation Notes
With Carrie Roach
Monday, January 17, 2022
WATER thanks Carrie Roach for bringing a “Psalm About Grieving” by Miriam Therese Winter to the group. Carrie also offered powerful remarks about her own grieving for a dear friend.
“Psalm about Grieving”
I turned to the wind
Who howled
And sighed
The whole time I was healing.
I turned to a tree
Who had lost its leaves-she knew how I was feeling.
I turned to the rain
Who was in tears,
For I too felt like crying.
I turned to Earth
Who understood
What it meant to live with dying.
I turned to a thistle
In a field,
I could see she too was lonely.
I turned to a rock
Who knew how hard it was
To be one and only.
I turned to a blade of grass
Because there were bonds
I had to sever.
I turned to the sea
Who returned to me
And taught me about forever.
I turned to a mountain
Who seemed secure
And I asked for strength
And endurance.
I turned to wildflowers
In a wood
And they gave me some assurance.
I turned to a friend
Who sat with me
Still and silent, be and becoming.
I turned to Shaddai
Who stayed with me
And gave meaning to my grieving.
Amen.
Miriam Therese Winter, WomanWisdom: A Feminist Lectionary and Psalter Women of the Hebrew Scriptures: Part One. The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1991/2002, pages 250-251.
This image of the Vagus Nerve was a good focus for our mediation. We could see how far reaching its impact is on the body, the many ways grief can manifest itself.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/i-now-suspect-the-vagus-nerve-is-the-key-to-well-being.html
Patricia Crowley was so kind as to send this link to an article which touches on the idea of “from stardust you came and unto stardust you will return” which was part of our conversation:
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/we-are-stardust?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=
