Single Garment

intricate garment linen

macramé knots

each twisted lovingly tying

seen and unseen

known and unknowable

securely wrapping existence in

blessed wholeness

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 

~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Boldly I raise my voice to add that all of life, every bit of earthly matter scattered from the beginning of time until the end is-was-will be bound in this same sacred “garment of destiny” Dr. King spoke of. Every “thing” we do or say, don’t do and don’t say matters-- matter, matters.

“...all men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny... I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality...” 

~Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

While we contemplate, theologize, philosophize, explore with scientific accuracy, (to the best of our human capabilities), how this is so, strand by entwined DNA strand, we may never fully unlock the Mystery of our inter-being-ness. Yet deep in the nucleus, the ikar, the essence of what we are, who we are, we know, we understand beyond a doubt that this is so.  And when, not if, but WHEN we see ourselves in each other, in all of Creation, when we learn to admit our flaws with true humility, love the imperfections, yours, mine ours, accept the disappointments, the expectations shattered, acknowledge the superficial differences that cause illusions of separation,  “the interrelated structure of reality,” the Oneness of existence will be revealed as “the single garment” it has never ceased to be.

“All that we see, earth and its fullness, are God’s outer garment”      

~Rebbe Shneor Zalman, Tanya

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