As Deep as Time, As Broad as the Earth

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[This is the time of the year monarchs flock and begin a monumental trek to Mexico mountains to winter.  Here's my dedication for UCH's Monarch Way Station: September 2007.]

This small parcel of land

      set aside by intention and action,

Has already been blessed

      by the natural graces

      and ordinary miracles

Of Nature

                    Where all Life

Is embraced by myriad bonds

      of mutuality.

Today we affirm Relationships

      as deep as time

     and as broad as the Earth —

An Interdependent Web Of Life

In which Butterfly and Human Being

      alike has an ordained place.

Isn't this Web of Life

Amazing?

Isn't this Web of Life

Wonderful?

Isn't this Web of Life

Sacred?

Here we  gather  and care for

      plants of the Prairie

      to feed Caterpillars

And to provide a Way‒Station

      for Monarchs

Wending their way in Autumn

      to a Winter Sanctuary

      a thousand  miles distant

And returning like clockwork

  In the Spring.

This is our pledge and our prayer:

May we be Agents of Life

Finding the ways and implementing the means

      to sustain and enhance life

      in all of its forms

On this Blessed  Earth.

Here and now,

Everywhere,

Forevermore.