"to adopt..."

"the verb, "to adopt" in Hindi means, literally,
to take into one's lap...in fact, God's lap.
The symbolism of nurturing protection
and promise is so powerful.
I love that Hindi is such a deep and meaningful language."
- Ian Forber Pratt

yes,
this makes sense

from this most ancient
language comes the key
to more
modern passages of
spiritual wisdom...

"Having been predestinated
to the adoption of children..."

yes,
this makes sense now...

we are all adopted,
there is no other
Truth

God is the only real parent...
the only Father
or Mother
of anyone....

and as we sit deep in His lap,
sisters and brothers
of one
divine Parent

we reach towards one
another in a spirit of
adoption...

we share this broad, warm
expanse of
His lap,
Her bosom,
and realize that we are
all predestinated
to adoption...

I adopt you as my husband,
you adopt me as your friend,
we adopt a community, a neighborhood,
a youth center,
a puppy....

adoption is our natural state
of living,
if we are living
in the lap of God...

adoption is the verb behind
"our Father..."
since "our"
means we never do it
alone...

ahhh....to share this
lap...to pull
one another into
our own lap, within
His lap....

such a cozy space
filled
with infinite
promise....and possibilities
for
blessing...

it's as
real as it gets...
there is no hierarchy of
connection,
nothing more "natural"
than sharing
a one, and only divine
Parent...

biology is just a story
we've created to
justify
what we think
we've seen....

it's a lovely story...
but it's just
a story...

"never born, and
never dying..."

thank you
Ian...



*the Scriptural writings of Paul, and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, were referenced in this poem.