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What If We Get It Right?
Opening Peace Chant: Singing Bowl
Divine and loving energy, bring me peace within my body, mind and soul/ Breath in and out long slow breaths.
Divine and loving energy, bring peace to those near me tonight and those not so near in my family, friends and neighbors/ Breath in and out long slow breaths.
Divine and loving energy, bring peace to this country and those beings in countries we do not call home/ Breath in and out long slow breaths.
Divine and loving energy, bring peace to all creatures on this planet earth/ Breath in and out long slow breaths.
Reading by Ayisha Siddiqa
What if the future is soft and revolution is so kind
that there is no end to us in sight?
Whole cities breathe and bad luck is bested by a promise to the leaves.
To withstand your own end is difficult.
Anger against injustice make the voice grow harsh yet.
The future frolics about, promised to no one, as is her right.
But if she leaves without us, the silence that will follow
will be an unspeakable nothing.
What if we convince her to stay?
How rare and beautiful it is that we exist.
What if we stun existence one more time?
When I wake up, get out of bed, my seven-year-old cousin
with her ruptured belly tags along.
Then follow my grandmother, aunts, my cousins, and
the violent shape of their drinking water.
The earth remembers everything,
our bodies are the color of the earth and we are nobodies.
Been born from so many apocalypses, what’s one more?
Love is till the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire.
But for what it’s worth, I’d do this again.
Gamble on humanity one hundred times over.
Commit to life unto life, as the trees fall and take us with them.
I’d follow love into extinction.
Silent moment
Second Reading – Quotes
“We have to act as if it were possible to radically change the world. And you have to do it all the time.” Angela Davis
“My mission in life is to not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do wo with some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style”. Maya Angelou
“What we pay attention to grow, so I’m thinking about how we grow what we are all imagining and creating into something large enough and solid enough that it becomes a tipping point”. adrienne maree brown
“Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“The time has come for us to re-imagine everything … to become the new kind of people that are needed at such as huge period of transition. We must transform ourselves to transform the world.” Grace Lee Boggs
“The disciples then came to Jesus and asked, ‘Why couldn’t we expel the demon?’ Jesus answered, ‘Because you have so little faith, The truth is, if you have even as much faith as the tiny mustard seed, you can be able to say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, nothing will be impossible for you.” Jesus
Silent Moment
Affirmations and Intentions:
May we redefine home. Let it be so.
May climate mitigation and adaptation be just. Let it be so.
May extreme weather not mean catastrophe. Let it be so.
May we develop new traditions for this new era. Let it be so.
May we prize interdependence over independence. Let it be so.
May we take care of one another. Let it be so.
Silence to add your own intentions.
Closing Prayer: “O love of God, without which life has no meaning, and no harbor, leave us not alone with our little lives, our broken dreams, our insistent problems, but involve our spirit with the utility, that we may be renewed in all the ways of our lives, that we may turn from this place, this day with all that is within us, washed and purified and refreshed. We seek this with simplicity of heart, and with quiet faith and confidence that thou would not deny thy love to thy children.” Howard Thurman
Read All About It, Part III by Emeli Sande
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaAVByGaON0
You've got the words to change a nation
But you're biting your tongue
You've spent a life time stuck in silence
Afraid you'll say something wrong
If no one ever hears it how we gonna learn your song?
So come, on come on
Come on, come on
You've got a heart as loud as lions
So why let your voice be tamed?
Baby we're a little different
There's no need to be ashamed
You've got the light to fight the shadows
So stop hiding it away
Come on, Come on
I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
At night we're waking up the neighbours
While we sing away the blues
Making sure that we remember yeah
Cause we all matter too
If the truth has been forbidden
Then we're breaking all the rules
So come on, come on
Come on, come on,
Let's get the tv and the radio
To play our tune again
It's 'bout time we got some airplay of our version of events
There's no need to be afraid
I will sing with you my friend
Come on, come on
I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Yeah we're all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
Now we're finally finding our voices
So take a chance, come help me sing this
Yeah we're all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
And now we're finally finding our voices
So take a chance, come help me sing this
I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream till the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it oh
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