The Auroras Borealis

First seen as a toddler

I wonder about the wonder 

That stirred in my heart

Back in my birthplace - Alaska

Beginnings of sacred seeing

The invitation to Visio Divina

And neuropathway soaking in

Of magical sight

The Trinity dancing?

I wonder about

All my body and brain took in

Did it descend deeply

Into my heart

As a two-year-old, 

Primal learning?

Perhaps

 

I traveled back

To Alaska at Twenty-two

1980 - for one year

To remote Alaska

Two hundred miles west of Fairbanks

Alone – an Air Force assignment

Leaving everything

And everyone 

Behind

For a return Journey

 

My heartbeat

With a whisper

From my center

Feeling a deep sense of

Return

Rhythm

Knowing 

Wonder.

I remember a yearning

Burning deep inside me

To see again

To ponder again

The mysterious glow

Of dancing light

And brilliant colors

Flickering

In the dark night

Of the nighttime sky 

In “The Last frontier”

Of  Alaska

 

To lay my eyes again

On the Auroras Borealis

“The Northern Lights”

Behold again

This beauty of the Lord

So spectacular

So loud to the eyes

but so wondrously 

Quiet to the ears!

 

I smile at this

As I feel my heart warm 

At the thought of the

Solitude

Stillness

Silence

That seems so

Deeply rooted in my 

Heart beginnings

Of childhood

Thank you, Jesus,

For this journey of imagination

The lifelong invitation 

To sacred seeing

Thank you, thank you, thank you!