The Magdalene Mystique - The Path Inward

Our first service at the Rothko Chapel was held on September 11, 2005 - considering that date of remembrance, we dedicated our service to peace, harmony, and health. We first observed silence after the reading of a meditation that had been written for our space of Rothko paintings. We awaited to see the light, the insight, the Peace.

After posting the Love Song yesterday, I thought you might be interested in reading our first meditation in that space. Perhaps you can visualize being in the Chapel Space yourself as you read it. You might want to click onto the Rothko Chapel website to visulize your being there with us on that date. http://www.menil.org/rothko.html

Here’s the meditation we used on that day, now close to two years ago:

First we wrap ourselves in silence
In emptinesss and nothingness
In no-thing-ness
We let go of the things of this world that press in on us, that call us.

We sink more deply into ourselves in our rooted-ness
In our radicality - as rooted in the Good ad the Just, in the Beautiful and in the Love.
We remain still in this space of silence.

We wrap ourselves in the canvas of purple and dark hues that we see before us.
In the comfort of the true humanity and divinity that resides within each of us.
No matter the way we look, or our differences,
our age or the color of our skin, the gender we embody, the nationality or religious tradition out of which we live.
We are together here in community as true human beings.
and in the dark we await for the light.

We await to see.
We await for the silence to break into speech.
Mary Magdalene ventured boldly to the tomb while it was still dark,
She awaited for the light of angels and the prophetic seeing and speaking.
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