For me, life in all its colors and fragrances means that life is a mixed bag full of an immense variety of experiences for us to be part of, respond to, learn and grow from. There was a time when the Christian theology I learned lost meaning. Western theology separates God from human, sacred from secular. Meaning returned in my life as a gift and a promise with my learning from the Eastern Wisdom tradition, the wisdom of the Vedic tradition, that all creation, living and not living, is one inseparable phenomena that I am part of. Meaning returned with my learning that all creation -- every thing, every plant, animal, and person, every color and fragrance -- is God incarnate. Knowing that means that all creation is sacred, and with that I reclaim my sense of the sacred. Meaning returned with Namaste, seeing God in all that is.
On Jan 18, 2020 David Doane wrote :