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A Note From Fr. Jeff
A huge thank you to Rev. Anne Kelsey for covering the two Sundays I am away! I really appreciate her presence.
While I am away, I'll let the words of Steve Garnaas-Holmes inspire you.
God's Desire
God's desire is no political agenda, nor an economic vision.
It is simply kindness toward all,
a world that includes everybody, that offers beauty,
that gives life, free and abundant,
tendered in verdant hands,
that weaves us together in one living being,
one body, one life.
It is simply passion that the wanting child be fed:
for she is your own.
The “self-made” who disbelieve are the wounded
whom the Spirit sends us to heal;
the “successful” who cling to their food
are the oppressed who need to be set free.
Only the grateful are wise;
only the compassionate see clearly.
Only those who would suffer to free others
are truly free.
The divine in you is not the power to conquer wrong
but simply brave kindness.
It has its own power to open eyes, to set free.
The martyrs and prophets,
who have known glares and stones,
pogroms, marches and fire hoses,
each trail of tears the same Via Dolorosa, they know:
this is not a goal or agenda, a plan or a program;
it is not born of human will at all.
It is a gift of God, the life of the Spirit breathing in you,
the maker of worlds commanding, “Let there be light.”
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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