The universe unfolds through a continuous process of breakdown, chaos, and spontaneous eruptions into new levels of order and meaning. This process occurs in every manifestation of life: the stars, the planets, earth, the continents, the oceans, plants, animals, humans.
In our human world, the old forms are breaking down and chaos threatens to annihilate everything. But, like the universe, we too will erupt into new levels of order and meaning. Consciousness is our unique reflection of the universe: we are the universe in a conscious mode. We participate most intimately in the great unfolding. We journey together.
In the face of growing darkness
We journey together.
In the face of ecological decline
We journey together.
In the face of social upheaval,
We journey together.
In the face of growing uncertainty,
We journey together.
All: In the face of growing darkness, we journey together toward the light.
As we search for glimpses of truth
We journey together.
As we search for signs of possibility
We journey together.
As we search for heralds of a new era
We journey together.
As we search for angels of hope
We journey together.
All: As we search for glimpses of truth, we journey together toward new levels of meaning.
As we build our world out of chaos
We journey together.
As we build our world out of shattered illusions of superiority
We journey together.
As we build our world out of our inadequate institutions
We journey together.
As we build our world out of our unfair sharing of resources
We journey together.
All: As we build our world out of the chaos, we journey together toward a new era of justice.
As the universe unfolds
We journey together.
As the universe unfolds through spontaneous communion
We journey together.
As the universe unfolds through new ways of being
We journey together.
As the universe unfolds through new forms of life
We journey together.
All: As the universe unfolds, we journey together in God's great Becoming.
--Rev. Daniel Martin
International Communities for the Renewal of the Earth (ICRE), New York