Fine Seeds, Divine Seeds

From the Heart of John Wingfield V3H7

Queen Anne’s Lace is standing and dancing in the summer wind. Not to be confused with Gray’s Lovage or Little Pipsissewa, or Queen Anne herself. The Queen Anne’s Lace is of the Parsley Family and related to the wild carrot. Seeing many, many Queen Anne’s Lace along my walk today I kept thinking of it as St. Anne’s Lace. And that took me to a painting in the National Gallery, which frames the north of Trafalgar Square in London. It’s not a painting really, rather it’s a cartoon, a prototype or sketch prior to the finished painting by Leonardo da Vinci. It depicts Mother Mary and the baby Jesus with St. Anne, Mary’s Mother and another baby, perhaps the one who will be called John the Baptist.

The amazing thing about that da Vinci is the profound depth it reaches into you. At least it did into me. The cartoon is in brown tone with Mary seated on Anne’s knee, extending her arm with the baby. What strikes you, or it did me every time I beheld it, was the flow of oneness, there is no separation between Anne, Mary and the Christ Child. Only the other infant is a bit off to the right, as an observer of the incredible movement of oneness into the mystic.

Queen Anne was the last Queen of England, Scotland, Ireland and France, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. And of course, for locals, Queen Anne remains a prominent hill in the heart of Seattle with a commanding view of the surrounding mountains, the Sound and cities.

Huckleberries are ripe on the delicate bushes of the lowland forest. They flourish where the ancient cedar used to grow, like an echo of another age gone by. A very good tasting echo. And those little green apples that God made are bulging on the branches in the miraculous process of becoming delicious apples.

Just as in the apple, also in the wild flowers, there are seeds just waiting to be taken and spread out across the land to spread the fruit and flowers. So too in you and in all of us, there is a seed, a divine seed, which is represented by Mary and Anne, extending forth the expression of the Christ Child in our gifts of life, to life. The divine seed in us contains DNA of love, understanding, vision, balance, wholeness, justice and peace.

Let’s plant the seeds with joy.