Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to community and creation!
SONG: Michael Jackson: Earth: https://youtu.be/XAi3VTSdTxU POEM: Elaine Equi: Earth (excerpt): A long time we were separate, O Earth, but now you have returned to me. SONG: Michael Jackson: Earth: QUOTE: CS Lewis: Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. […]
SONG: IJM Ghana: Spirit Song: https://youtu.be/civgUOommC8 POEM: Rudyard Kipling: Justice (excerpt): Before we loose the word / That bids new worlds to birth, Needs must we loosen first the sword / Of Justice upon earth; Or else all else is vain / Since life on earth began, And the spent world sinks back again / […]
SONG: Beyonce from Disney’s Lion King: Spirit Song: https://youtu.be/civgUOommC8 POEM: Wendell Berry: A Spiritual Journey: And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be […]
ONG: The Wynans: Uphold Me: https://youtu.be/xkHfGzAcD6E POEM: Rebecca Hazelton: Vow (excerpt): … When they looked at their options / it seemed there weren’t really that many / after all. They swore to uphold the bonds / and the principles … QUOTE: Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: People who have a religion should […]
SONG: Rytikal: Chosen: https://youtu.be/thNWIM5Oe6w POEM: Uche Nduka: Untitled [When Shall Your Wounds] (excerpt): … daily your kingdom squeaks / and leaps to the starlight / it wants all of you / you of all and the music … you are the one the music / has chosen and whom strings call / twilight moans behind […]