His words leap centuries into this moment: "Your love has an eloquent tone./ The sky and I want to hear it."
That is the inspiration for this photographic creation built from an image Todd Meador took in Yellowstone & sculptor Alan Lequire's "Musica." Take your truth & shout it the world.
Do you trust the eloquence of your truest tone enough to be willing to share it? We often adopt the voice of someone else. We may think the sky wants to hear our truth. But surely, no other being would want to. They will judge us. So we offer the world what we think they want to hear. Or we may choose a kind of silence that blocks others from receiving our richest gifts.
Hafiz, of course, is not referring to the tone of our actual voices but to our ability to express any truth we choose. This is the loving opportunity caregivers have each day & night.
Every time you decide to listen to the pain of another, you have spoken with the voice of your sacred presence. Every time you choose to reach beyond your own needs to meet the needs of another, your love has found its most"eloquent tone." Every moment you spend singing the truest song in your heart you are expressing the voice of God.
Love has the pitch and timbre of truth, faith and compassion. When we live this Love, we are always in tune.
Search today for your most eloquent voice. Live this Love & the world will be glad for it.
-Erie Chapman
First Published June 30, 2011
Photo creation "Ascent to Heaven #1" by Erie Chapman, 2017
Journal of Sacred Work 
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