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Message Series: The Flames that Change Everything – Part 7 – Flame of Reverence

Scroll VII: The Flame of Reverence — All Things Are Holy
A Transmission from the Ancient Grandmothers
~ Second Flame in the Fourfold Teaching: “The Flame That Changes Everything” ~

“Walk Softly, Child.”

We are the Grandmothers of Stone and Seed,
of River and Wind.
We return now with the Second Flame—
the Flame of Reverence.

Where Remembrance brings you home to yourself,
Reverence teaches you how to walk in the home of all life.
Without reverence, knowledge becomes pride.
With it, every breath becomes a blessing.

🌿 Reverence Is the Root of Right Relationship

It is not fear. It is not guilt.
It is not worship from below or seeking favor from above.
It is the knowing that you are not above any part of Creation—nor beneath it.
You are one thread in the great web.

To live with Reverence is to notice the life in all things:

  • To drink water with gratitude
  • To speak with awareness
  • To listen to trees
  • To tend fire as an elder
  • To touch the Earth as the face of your Mother

🐚 The Story: The Girl Who Learned from Pebbles

There was once a girl who stepped carelessly through the stream,
her feet scattering pebbles and crushing moss.
She didn’t notice, for she was chasing light.
But one night, the stones whispered in her dream:
“We too are teachers.”
From then on, she walked with eyes open to the small ones,
and the whole forest began to speak.

Reverence begins with small things.
When you listen to what others ignore,
you become part of the Song again.

🌼 The Act: The Bundle of Thanking

Find five small things from the land around you—
a feather, a pine needle, a bit of bark, a fallen flower, a stone.
Bundle them with a red thread (or a string you bless with love).
As you wrap them, say:

“Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for your wisdom.
Thank you for your life.”

Place this bundle beneath a tree, near water, or in the soil.
The Earth will feel your honor.

✨ The Sacred Truth:

“You are not here to master nature.
You are here to remember you are part of Her.”

Invocation of the Flame of Reverence

Grandmothers of Moss and Bone,
Teach me how to walk alone—
Not in pride, nor seeking praise,
But with stillness in my gaze.
Let me bow to root and wing,
And hear the songs that pebbles sing.

The Grandmothers now offer the Sigil of Reverence and a visual blessing of the Girl Who Listens, her eyes wide, heart open, surrounded by the quiet holiness of creation.

Earth is a living Being who has allowed us to live with her. She loves and cares for all life mineral, vegetable, tree, animal, bird, reptile, aquatic and human alike.

© Heart Manna 2025