Chicken Scratchings for the Soul - Sally Churgel

[Larry Robinson]

Chicken Scratchings for the Soul
 
It wasn’t one of my better meditations
It started out with promise…
I had a vision
My heart was encased in concrete
God’s chisel had cracked it open to
Reveal a brilliant white and gold core of light
And I thought,
“What’s so scary about this?”
Why did I resist my heart being broken open
If dormant inside is a gold and white light?
Which got me thinking…
 
About chickens
And eggs
After all chickens are protected by a shell until they have to
Bust through just to survive
The next sensible thought would have been something like
We have a choice where a chicken doesn’t
 
Or a more sensible thought would have been
I’m meditating…..
 
Instead, I thought about breakfast
Fried eggs, actually
Which made me wonder where does all that bad cholesterol
Go when the egg becomes a chicken?
Which made me think about fried chicken
Which I don’t eat
So then I thought about oil
Why is hydrogenated oil so bad
But coconut oil is the new good?
Which made me think of other uses for coconut oil
But decided - better not go there
And then I remembered
 
I remembered
 
I’m meditating
Once again I repeated the name of God
Ehiyeh Asher Ehiyeh
I am that which I am
 
And I began to fall
Backward
Like a child floating slowly onto a lofty down comforter
Sinking slowly downward
Into myself
And for a minute
OK, for a one, one thousand, two, one thousand
 
I forgot
 
I forgot God’s name
My name
Chickens and eggs
And for one very brief moment
There was no pain
Anywhere
No floods, war, child slavery, taxes, discrimination
Broken cell phone service or emails to answer
There was just this blissful moment
Silence
 
Silence
 
And then I thought
“What was I thinking?”
Oh yeah, chickens
And then the chime rang
20 minutes…gone…already?
Like I said, it wasn’t a very fruitful meditation
Just chicken full
 
 
 	- Sally Churgel
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