The Letter that Refuses to let Heaven stay 'up there'

Vav is the 6th letter.

The early Christian mystics read the Hebrew letter Vav in the name YHWH as the connector between the upper Yod-Hey (transcendent Father/Mother)

and the lower Hey (immanent creation/Shekhinah). Jesus, in this schema, IS the Vav.

Here is a poem I wrote that I believe expresses this concept of Vav as the Holy Connector...between God and humanity:

Jesus said that if we look for heaven in the air

The birds will beat us to it

Then he said if it were in the sea, the fish would already rule it

Instead he said do not look far

because heaven is anywhere that you are

and when two or three, to talk to me, I am in the middle

If God is Jesus and Jesus is God

what does that make us?

We are made, fashioned, from his image, that much we have been told

Not the product of a Virgin birth

Not the hero of legends told

Our beginnings are not ceremonies of trumpets and Holy commencement

and our deaths are not always recorded in the analogues of history

I've heard it said, 'from dust we came, and to dust we shall return.'

But, God's own imagination, I behold

Are we the remnants of rotting flesh or are we made of stardust?

If I should die, before I wake

I pray the Lord my soul to take

But if doesn't I know what I will do

I'll take the second star and hang a right

and travel until I meet the morning...