Being creator and created

Some days I forget that I am creating my own life. Sure there are various paths to follow, or not. These are part of life's gifts. But I always have a choice.

 "... We may imagine ourselves as the in-utero foetus - an image we might have access to these days from a sonar-scan during pregnancy. This image presents a truth about Being: we are this, and it is within us, within this moment. Every moment is pregnant with the new. It will be birthed when holy darkness is full. Part of what is required is having the eyes to see the “new bone forming in flesh,” scraping our eyes “clear of learned cataracts,”[i] seeing with fresh eyes. That is what the fullness of the Dark offers - a freshening of our eyes to see the new. And the process of Creation is always reciprocal: we are Creator and Created simultaneously, in a “ngapartji-ngapartji”[ii] way. We are in-formed by that which we form. In Earth-based religious practice, the ubiquitous icon of Mother and Child – Creator and Created – expresses something essential about the Universe itself … the “motherhood” we are all born within. It expresses the essential communion experience that this Cosmos is, the innate and holy Care that it takes, and the reciprocal nature of it. We cannot touch without being touched at the same time.[iii] We may realize that Cosmogenesis – the entire Unfolding of the Cosmos – is essentially relational: our experience tells us this is so. ..."

quoting Glenys Livingstone, A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony, p. 165.

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[i] The quotes come from a poem by Cynthia Cook, “Refractions,” Womanspirit (Oregan USA, issue 23, March 1980), 59.

[ii] This is an Indigenous Australian term for reciprocity - giving and receiving at the same time. I explain it a bit further in PaGaian Cosmology, 256-257.

[iii] An expression from Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, 68.

Thanks PaGaian Cosmology FB site

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Of course this is an idealistic approach, a way to align my thinking as I step along life's path. It kind of leaves out all the awful bad things that are out there happening in the world today.

Can I think with this approach when dealing with how these world events affect me? Not sure.