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For my friends Jen, Rachelle, Eliacin and you
Funny how sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, and those who are forerunners, at the edge, pushing the envelope - sometimes it’s hard to know what their contribution really is (besides pissing people off and raising a ruckus, which is only sometimes as fun as it looks :-)).
From “The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time” (Tom Sine) , here’s encouragement to many of you:
To counter the imperial colonization of our imaginations, we need poets, prophet(esses, Pat adds) and artists to help us create subversive imagery that challenges the reigning reality. Walter Bruggeman reminds us (in “Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile” (Walter Brueggemann), Pat footnotes) that the people of Israel challenged the powerful myths of the Babylonian Empire by the subversive power of poetic imagination and began to conjecture a very different vision of the future. (Bruggemann writes) “The outcome of such poetry is hope. It is hope that makes community possible on the way out of the empire.” (196-97)
So, those of you prophetesses and prophets on the edge of the empire, continue to create subversive imagery that creates hope - hope that community is possible on the way out of the empire.
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3 Comments »St. Patrick tells you why I blog
In Patrick’s self-written Confessio , he writes this:
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul’s desire.
So, that’s why I blog. To share my imperfections and my journey through them, and so that I - and you my friends and family and acquaintances - can know what sort of person I am and perceive my soul’s desire.
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No Comments »Another Merton Quote (a repeat)
My God, I pray better to You by breathing,
I pray better to You by walking than by talking
“Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings” (Thomas Merton), p. 57
I’ve blogged this before, I’m certain, but it bears repeating.
Have I mentioned lately how much I enjoy reading Thomas Merton?
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No Comments »If You (Merton)
If You allow people to praise me, I shall not worry. If You let them blame me, I shall worry even less. If You send me work, I shall embrace it with joy. It will be rest to me because it is Your will. If You send me rest, I will rest in You. Only save me from myself. Save me from my own, private, poisonous urge to change everything, to act without reason, to move for movement’s sake, to unsettle everything that You have ordained.
Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.
from “Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings” (Thomas Merton), p.53
I keep this book in the bathroom when I need reading material :-). It acts frequently as a devotional aid for me, and it reminds much about how much I love Merton, and his way of following Christ. And I find that Merton’s words center and still me, relieving me of much that is unnecessary and damaging.
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No Comments »The thing is
The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.
- Soren Kierkegaard, Journal (quoted in Os Guinness, The Call, p.3)
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