Let's Stop Calling It God

Recently my dear friend Chelan Harkin, the young Rumi and Hafiz of our day, posted this poem, which has struck a wildly resonate chord with thousands around the world. If you haven't yet discovered Chelan's work you can find out more at chelanharkin.com.

Let’s stop calling it God. It's too heavy a name. It means too much. It needs too muchredemption. It is too tied to history and old weight in your heart. It feels more cage than key,more should than want,more authoritative than attractive, more death than life.Choose a namethat carries its rightful tone~Call it the most beautiful longingsof Life, Call it the inspiration that sings through form,

the genius behind allthat brings things to blossom. Call it whatever it isthat adds poetry to the radiance of the moonor that which attunes usto beauty.Call it the Wild Grace, that encourages the sapling into the oak,that which delivers us into the grandeur and nobilityof our deeply rooted joy,that which redeems usfrom the fallacious notionthat there was ever evil.Call it that which prompts us to pray,not for the sake of salvation that was never needed,but for the satisfactionof the heart in expressing the fullnessof its gratitude.Call it that which adores the totality of our truth and beckons it forward with the invitationto know more light~Call it She who animates the ocean waves,who composes sunsets,who carves the great clay bowls of the valleysand uses the steady handsof time to raise the mountains.Call it intelligence, inspiration,brilliance, insight and guidance, The magic within science.The ecosystem of lightthat connects us all.Call it the custom-made currentsthat yearn to flow youtoward whatever in this generous worldwill best pollinateyour heart’s beauty.