Sunshine Cathedral Blog

“Whether I am a small or a big wave of being, the same Ocean of Life is behind me.” Paramahansa Yogananda

Oceans are vast. Oceans are deeper that one can tell from looking at the surface. An ocean is a home for all kinds of creatures, and it provides food for even more creatures. Oceans are life-giving. The ocean connects all life within it, supports life within it, interpenetrates all life within it. The ocean is one with all the life it houses and sustains. No matter what a crab or a star fish or a sponge knows about the ocean, no matter what those creatures believe about the ocean, no matter how they understand their relationship to the ocean, the ocean remains faithful to them, inseparable from them, nurturing and sustaining them always. Isn’t the Source of our lives, the Substance of All That Is, the All-in-all… no matter what we call It (and most of us probably call It “God”), isn’t It as faithful, as present, as nurturing as the Ocean? Isn’t God the Ocean of our Lives in which we live and move and have our being? Doesn’t God surround us and fill us and connect us with all Life? Isn’t this Good News?

Yours in shared service,

Durrell+