Timescape
Rev. Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D.
September 16 2012
Leaving footprints on the virgin sands of time
My soul wanders,
Seeking love as thirsting bodies pursue water .
While captured in prismatic time and space
My Spirit Spark suffers the mirage illusion
That the Love it must reflect
Is not within.
Flagging sometimes, it pursues the search
On the horizon of the years and hours and minutes
When within itself, all is whole, suffused, complete.
Reflection
Like most everyone, when I look at the years, the calendar, my age and that of loved ones, I wonder “where has the time gone?” What, though , is time? Has it come? Has it gone? Can I “spend” it? Can I “lose” it? Why is it elastic, whisking past my mind when I’m not paying attention, but slowing to an agonizing crawl if I watch it tick and tock? I conclude, upon reflection, that “time,” as an essential fact, is, in the spiritual realm, an illusion, a mirage – Spirit in me knows what’s real, but my soul, captive in a physical reality, has forgotten.
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About Rev. Dr. Rosemary C. Hyde,
I am a grandmother, a classical homeopath, a mystical poet, and an interfaith minister. I also have a large, enduring place in my heart for Paris. I first spent time in Paris in 1961, as a Fulbright scholar. I remained in France for three years, living also in Toulouse and in Nancy. I have revisited France and Paris multiple times since then, and have come to know The city and surroundings quite well. I grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where there were many Franco-Americans, and their language fascinated me. I was fortunate in 6th grade, when my family moved, to find myself in a Catholic French speaking girls' school, where I had the wonderful fortune of becoming bilingual. It still feeds my soul deeply, to visit Paris, speak French, and reconnect with the little French girl in me.
I am serving presently as President of the global online Peace Initiative called LivingPeaceNow.Org. We are bringing together worldwide in 3 languages — English, French, and Spanish— small groups of Connected Peacemakers to help deepen and hold Peace globally with their thoughts, words, and actions.
My goal as a minister is to add richness to life for those who resonate to more than one religious tradition or to none -- those with mixed religions as well as the unchurched, untempled, and unmosqued.
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