The sacred is not far away, but in nature
The sacred is not far away, but in nature.
This Guadalupe...
She was not born from a canvas, nor did she descend from the clouds among porcelain cherubs. This Guadalupe is the very soul of the mountain, the one who chose to remain in the old wood, never to abandon the earth.
They say that in the silence of a forgotten forest, an ancient tree stopped growing toward the sky and began to look inward. With the passing winters, its bark folded with the softness of a mantle, and its trunk opened like a natural niche, revealing the figure that was always there, waiting to be seen.
She is a virgin of water and moss, who needs no temples of stone because she is her own refuge. Her radiance is not gold, but that soft light that filters through the pines at dusk. She is there to remind us that the sacred is not far away, but in the nature that breathes, in the dampness of the marsh, and in the infinite patience of the trees that watch us pass by.
She is the mother of all that sprouts, the one who protects the sleep of the forest and listens to the secrets that the wind whispers to the branches.