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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION

question sits on my shoulder: Am I willing—am I able—to depend on the community and

on the Spirits, that fully? Thus far, no.)

We say that a soldier who dies has made the ‘ultimate sacrifice’. But if that death is

without clear intention, what is the message to the Other World? To shed blood

mindlessly, with nothing more than terror or hatred in one’s heart, creates confusion at

best. Little wonder, then, that we are beset by such a massive spiral of death in

response to our heedless ways.

To squander Earth’s gifts is an active insult. It creates chaos. And yet the living world

continues to be generous. For me, this generosity is an expression of the original order

of things and making offerings is a way to show gratitude for the fact that, in spite of

everything, there are fragments of intactness glistening amid the wreckage wrought by

hierarchical, linear western thinking. When I am connected to the Holy, when I can see

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