By Divine Order
After many years as an educator, I’ve learned something deceptively simple: we don’t all see the same mental images, even when we use the same words.
For example, I could ask a room full of people to picture a dog. Each person would comply.
Eager, certain, confident. But what we’d find if we asked them to draw that dog would be a gallery of dogs: some shaggy, some sleek, some joyful, others somber. All different. All true.
This discrepancy is easy to dismiss when the subject is something tangible, something with universally accepted criteria. We can all point to a Labrador or a Dachshund and agree, “That is a dog.”
But when we shift from the concrete to the abstract, the stakes change.
Now imagine I ask that same room to picture freedom, or love, or Divine Order. Silence. Hesitation. Maybe a few confident answers, but vastly divergent, often conflicting, and most definitely going to upset someone.
That is the realm I work in: the unseen differences, the mental landscapes we carry unknowingly, the sacred inner dictionaries we consult without ever opening.
When I use the phrase Divine Order, I do so knowing full well that others may carry entirely different meanings. And so, I offer mine not as a claim of authority, but as a point of clarity. So whether we agree or disagree we are at least on the same page.
As used on SiriusLeigh.com, Divine Order is not separate from the observable world. It is not a whimsical hierarchy, nor a punishment-reward system engineered by invisible hands. It is Natural Law, the rhythm behind rhythm, the pattern beneath chaos, the mathematics of miracles. The Earth and the totality of its mechanisms. Please note that I am not saying that this is Thy God, but an observable piece of an action initiated before I was me.
All ancient peoples recognized this Order. They didn’t need doctrine, they had direct engagement. Through careful attention, they discovered that by doing certain things a Certain way, they could produce reliable, even miraculous results. When to plant. How to heal. When to rest. When to move. Their reverence didn’t come from ignorance, but gratitude. They understood that life responded to alignment.
As human knowledge advanced, we began to see behind the curtain. We learned to manipulate the mechanisms that produced those results: electricity, chemistry, biology, sound. And in our excitement, we mistook manipulation for ownership. We began to exalt human dominance over natural wisdom. But the very mechanisms we manipulate, our medicines, our machines, our codes and computations are built from Earth’s blueprint.
We did not invent them. We discovered them. And their reliability our ability to predict, to build, to heal is only possible because they follow a deeper order. We can build log cabins, but not the trees.
So yes, Divine Order, to me, is greater than Earth. Far greater. But I only have one life, and I live it here. My hands touch soil. My breath comes from trees. My heartbeat is synced with a planet that teaches, heals, and remembers.
When I say Divine Order, I mean the code that gives rise to these mechanisms the harmony that governs systems we depend on but cannot control.
It is not ours to own.
But it is ours to honor.
It is the unseen architecture of life, both intimate and infinite.
Is written in the palm of your hands.
