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Hardened stone moulds to dripping water, soaring cliff sighs to northern wind. Hearts with embers dulled awake in the spark of Grace
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Hope & Despair are Struggle’s children. The former possesses potential, the latter paralysis. May there be awakening to possibility!
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Today began as it has always begun. Did you walk into it the same way as yesterday? Is that how you would like tomorrow to be?
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Spiritual/Religious. Choice/Commitment. Are these heard as invitation or burden? The path to relationship with the Holy begins as a Disciple
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Death: Life’s reminder that change is constant. In places of grief & in soaring moments of abundance, may you experience the Holy’s embrace
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Tweeting & Chirping. Rustling & Swishing. Light ablaze, rains a spray. From sleeping soil, growth slips through grains to meet a new day
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Planned process & prepared plans. Semblance of control in human grayness. May the unfettered Spirit be followed toward freedom
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Gossip: nattering harm, whispered slights, furtive glances & vindictive smirks. If you could not say it to your gram or auntie, should you?
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Cash exchanged, card swiped, chip inserted, register rings & exit with deal in hand. Pause: upon whose shoulders was savings just had?
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Power: Who has it? Who wants it? Who needs it? Who shares it? Unasked questions lead to silence & it’s there where people suffer & endure
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Future focused diminishes today; past planted abstracts the now; live a better tomorrow today & the promise of awakening begins
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Power & Privilege. Humility & Ego. The soul’s difficult dance through a human journey. One dance leads to compassion, the other to greed
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In our world of brokenness & hurt, may we endeavour to be as a fox to kit; queen to brood; father to babe; gardener to shoot, to each other
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Contextually plural, faithfully grounded. Journeying from upper to lower case ‘t.’ It is in the differences that God’s mosaic is revealed
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Violence rings: a fearful tale spun. Keep low & hide & monsters pass. Throw open shutters, unfurl blinds. Greet a Stranger & meet yourself!
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Right Relations: Claim our past role; Acknowledge territory in which we live; Live into Treaty as Covenant; See equity as path to equality
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Everyday marks the end of that & the beginning of this. We may desire to paint in monotone but arriving to wonder always belies the illusion
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4P Formula: Power+Politics+Privilege+Poverty = Challenge it, Speak into it, Unwrap it, Dismantle it
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Assumption-filled lives distracted from pervasive wonder. Pause: eyes open, look left, right, up & down. Above the Seine, bald eagle soars
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Faith is experienced in the actions you choose, not the words you use. The world is better for the hand offered, not the finger that wags
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Nationalism & Allegiances. To whom do you owe yours? Are the colours of a flag or the choices of faith your guide? Into this tension we walk
Your reflections are most welcome!