The Bardo Group, a blogazine that counts me as one of its core contributors, has invited me to participate in a writing exercise.  The prompt explains that God is a Verb and so are we and encourages me to consider the use of verbs in my work.  I am thrilled by this idea!  Let me tell you why: I love the philosophy that action is our essence.  We are not concepts, we are acting, living creatures.  I am not Priscilla; I am Priscilla-ing.  I first heard this idea from Alan Watts.  Here is a charming animated video in which he explains how the Earth is People-ing.

Victoria Slotto, our writing prompt author, notes how the Judeo-Christian story gives words the power of creation and life.  God spake and the Universe came into being; the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.  I remember listening with fascination to a Biblical scholar, Vickie Garvey, explain the Hebrew verb for God’s love for us.  ‘Chesed’ is often translated as loving-kindness.  (n.b. Victoria Slotto has corrected me: without looking up my notes, I cited the wrong word.  The word ‘rachamim’, compassion, is related to ‘rechem’, womb.) However, she discovered that it is closely related to the word for womb.  God ‘wombs’ us.  When I show compassion, I am ‘womb-ing’.  My mind and body both leaped for joy.  I know just what this means!  I have felt it!  

As co-creators — living, sentient beings (amid many others) — we know the joy of sending ripples of action skimming across the universe.  May our lives be, beget, generate, produce, compose, fashion, formulate, perform and work wonders!