- A Sacred Drum A sacred drum stands. It is big and deep. The sacred sound surrounds. It is the mantra of the earth speaking richness, masculine and feminine energy as one deep tone. We are one in this beauty. Each touch of the drum takes us deeper into the center. And the center is the curvature of space into the infinite dimension of the divine. The drum is the curve and the center. The many doors are one door. And the one door is the many. The sound is the flood of the infinite. The drum vibrates, resonates, sustains the deep tone. An elk races in the wind, his heart song leaping from the great drum that he has given himself for and we acknowledge his spirit. And we acknowledge the spirit of the cottonwood whose second life carries the heartbeat of the earth again. Who stood tall and strong, connected to the mother's heart that sustains us all, now pulses again with the sacred life. And we flow in appreciation, entering the great circle the drum now fills. The stories flow from us into each other becoming the one story. There is one sound, one consciousness. Many voices, one consciousness. By John MacEnulty |