Sacred Secret

Mission Creek, Montana A river, sunk deep into the prairie remembers the time I fished in it with my father in a deep Montana evening. Fish swam by in their race towards autumn, but neither of us felt the need to chase them. There were arrowheads that had been lying in the tall grasses, a hundred years of waiting to greet our fingers with their unsure edges, broken backs. The night broke over our shoulders, mine young and his quickly aging, so we returned to the car and left only the river there to remember the solitary evening when Montana had become more than a place, but a sacred breath to take when you were out of things to say, when you were out of things to sanctify. Patricia Schlutt, age 15 Grand Rapids, Michigan Teacher: Rodney Torreson 2010 River of Words Finalist

Desire is the fuel for the fires of creation. How does your soul materialize? Your attention is amplified by the “burning desire” and a vibration shift was created so that a polarity was formed out of singularity. It takes a tremendous desire to pump up enough energy to split into two, from pure spirit into body and spirit. The vibration shift lets your astral self split into energy/mater so it can experience itself in the physical world. Self wants to know who it is in every way possible. Without judgment the spirit asks endless questions like, “Who am I when I’m a tree, a bird, a fish, a person, a rock, an everything that could be?” Those questions drive evolution because once a question is asked it is acknowledging a void of knowledge and that void, once seen, starts to attract the matching energy to complete or answer it. That attraction is expressed through desire in its purest form. Not obsessive, clingy, jealousy but pure desire, the energy of attraction. Desire is the fuel