Tag: hope
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Liberation’s Way
Angel of YHWHYou are the pillar of cloudthat lights up the nightone with the darknessand one with our fright. Lead us awayfrom powers and politicsthat subdue and persuadeand guide us on dry landthe path to your freedomby Moses’ hand. Form a wall of gracefor the downcast and displaced:those we turn our backs towardsand those we…
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the Politics of Passover
God of politicsyou come to those downcast and dismissedenslaved and weighed down in mortar and bricksbringing food and freedom:a pathway to your kingdom. May we learn how to eatwith loins girded, sandals on feetstaff in hand, on the edge of our seat,waiting and watchingas you break the chainsof the oppressive reignsand the systems sustainedon the…
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Down in the River to Pray
God of liberation,who chooses the onesfrom the most oppressed nations,you call us to look foryour saving gracein the shadow places of your world: in Hebrew mid-wives,a Levite woman,and the daughter of a Pharaoh;in refugeeswho traversed the wild seasor the single mother of three the people we do not see. Shake us awaketo your saving gracestill…
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Walking on Water
The One who calls us to actionand contemplation,you call us to return to the mountainto memorize meditation,pronounce presenceto unknow the knowablein silent places:in the corners hidden in timeand minutes hidden in spaces. Give us will and a wayto meander this mountainthough the waves ragethe winds roarand the unknownis the only thing that is sureso we…
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God of the Darkness
God of the Darknesswho comes to uswhen the sun has setthe night has comeand the shadows of the world and our souls become one. You come to usin the wrestle of lifein the fight for a blessinggiving us a new namefrom the struggles we have enduredfrom the moment we were birthed. So let us, in…
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A New Name
I’m done with ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Christ’, ‘Lord’, ‘King’, ‘Father’.Can’t take it any longer. I’m letting all of you goso you might relax, too, and be freed from constantly being a show. Now what if I called you ‘flow’‘The tingling’‘The gut’‘The sensation’‘The pull’?What if I called you ‘compassion’ and ‘acceptance’?What if I called you ‘My seeing’‘My hearing’‘The…
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Just one leper
Turn back.Remember your skinso soft and serenewas made cleanwhen you had faith that you were seenbeheld, beloved and believed in. Turn backRemember your heartwas made to sing like a larkto prostrate your lifeand all your deepest longingsin a lullabyfrom your lungs to where you lie. Turn backRemember your souland its songs of thanksgivingso sweet and…
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Reclaiming the Reptilian
Sometimes the world feels like it is against me. I admit I contribute to this rivalry: intensifying the fight more than I might need to. But I can’t help it, or it feels like I can’t. Or I haven’t yet mastered the tools of disarming my reptilian brain. Like a wild animal, my hair stands…
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Become
(A Blessing for Blue Christmas) Not all things are brightand brilliantor ready to be birthedin the bustle of this season. The bulk of uswithin our bodiesbeneath this veilis the deep abyss of blueof beingburnedbruisedbut not broken. Believe beyond anything you didor those savage beasts have done to youdoes not define youNo.see how it refines youinto…
by Rev Alisha 