Sophia's Children

“All spiritual traditions, including Christianity, have shamanic roots. When the roots are fed, they sink deeper into sacred ground.”

~ Bradford Keeney, Shamanic Christianity

Let’s have a blessing-bath with that last sentence for a minute … let the essence of it settle around you like a soft, cozy wrap on a cold day.

“When the roots are fed, they sink deeper into sacred ground.”

I first came across Keeney’s book, Shamanic Christianity, when I was still living in my longtime home town, San Francisco.

The book stalked me.

Tenaciously. It became a bit of Divine Humor. It turned up in front of my face everywhere, including in bookstore sections where it had clearly been misfiled.

Uh-huh. We know how The Holy Divine as Merry Trickster works.

Finally I got the message — I can be dense like that sometimes — and said, “Oh for God’s sake! FINE!” and bought the book. (For the record, I was smiling when I said that!)

It was a Merry Trickster blessing, and wisdom-rich as well.

In recent days I was nudged to pull it back off my own bookshelf and revisit it. And early into the book, that particular sentence stopped me in my tracks.

“When the roots are fed, they sink deeper into sacred ground.”

Honestly, it’s the sort of notion that, if it catches me at just the right time and in just the right state of being, makes me want to fall to my knees from the beauty of it.

I’m weird that way..

It’s not in itself a formal blessing, that sentence, but if it seeps deeply enough, stirs something in you, then it’s pure blessing. You’ll see.

So …a root-feeding blessing on us:

May we find it more and more easy to feed the roots, and find ourselves more and more deeply aware that we’re always standing on, rooted in, born from, and sustained by sacred ground.

Big Love,
Jamie

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