Life flow

J. Philip Newell is a poet, a scholar, a teacher, and is internationally acclaimed for his work in the field of Celtic spirituality. In his intro to the CD Sounds of the Eternal: Meditative Chants and Prayers he writes, “One of the great yearnings in the hearts of many of us today is to reconnect our spirituality with the undomesticated energies of the earth.”

Yes.
We just returned from some time in the wilderness, in the waters of life flow, in the new day’s freshness!

With you is the source of life O God,
you are the beginning of all that is.
From your life the fire of the rising sun steams forth.
You are the life flow of creations rivers,
the sap of blood in our veins,
earth's fecundity,
the fruiting of trees,
creatures birthing,
the conception of new thought,
desires origin.
All these are of you O God
and I am of you.
You are the new day’s freshness.

- J. Philip Newell, Sounds of the Eternal