Being Written in the Book of Life

I've been preparing for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and these thoughts came to me concerning being written in the Book of Life:  Perhaps the Book of Life is not a thing, but a process. A process of being in relationship, a process of learning to be more generous and kind and giving, of learning to seek forgiveness and make amends for our wrong doings.

Unlike all other Jewish holy days, Yom Kippur is about being together as a community, in community, not individually, in relationship with one another, wherein we all confess together publicly to everything. The list is everything, and everyone confessing to the whole list, because the sins belong to the community as a whole. If you think about it, most of the devastating sins of our age are communal--racism, sexism, discrimination, global and planetary wrongs, etc. They belong to all of us to fix. Even if individually I am good, I am still part of a society that is in serious need of higher consciousness and selflessness and caring of one another.

So on Yom Kippur, together, we gather, confess communally where we are still amiss, and together, we embrace our process of being inscribed in the Book of Life.

It was this insight that led to a wholly holy transcendent moment of being in the process of riding the ocean currents as a sea turtle. ... I shape shifted without consciously/intentionally doing so..... I was suddenly in the ocean, the Sea Turtle riding the currents..... it was sooooooooooo real and awesome.... I rode it as long as I could before I "came back"....  which is quite odd given the fact that I do not like water or swimming and fear drowning almost more than any other kind of death. My name is Morgan, "of the ocean", for a reason........ It was magical and powerful and awesome and incredibly transcendent. 

G!d is Process, holy sacred particles of energy, moving and flowing and transcending and in the spaces in between. Grounded and transcendent simultaneously, because everything is composed of vibrations. And vibrations are constantly moving, constantly in process. And it is the movement and process which makes them what they are...energy, flow, vibrations...

I am ready to step into the flow of Yom Kippur.