Am Neckar: The River as Soul’s Companion
As I have recently found a spirit guide in the Great Blue Heron (see previous entry), water has long been an elemental spiritual presence for me. Waters are symbolic of baptism, of cleansing and renewal. I have been a long time away from water, too. The following is a meditation I wrote while living in Germany back in February of 2002. I would walk along the banks of the Neckar River in Tuebingen. The water became a place of comfort, a friend to me at a time when I was walking a lonely path with many questions on my heart…
O still river, how long it ha been since I have seen your waters gently flow by. How good it feels to sit here next to you, observing your nature. The long days have made me weary and you are at present my only friend. You understand me and speak to me in ways that others cannot. I see my true self through the reflection from your waters. You sustain me, you guide me and you give me life. And today, when the life has been sucked away from me, I come to you to be renewed. I come to sit at your banks and wash away the dirt from my face. As still as you are right now, I feel the power within your soul; I feel the power within my soul. And when our time together comes to an end, I take with me the images I see before me, so I can return to them in my dreams. Forever you will flow, forever you will be and forever I will be in you. O River of Life, I fall on my knees…I remember my baptism in your waters and I ask forgiveness. I leave your presence, a Child of God, renewed and cleansed. I look forward to the next time we shall meet. It may be here or in another place far off, but your waters are eternal and will never change.
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