I am currently away at a retreat. While here, I have been reminded of the importance of community. This community is working together towards a goal of having an imagination emporium. A physical space where the community gathers to imagine ways to transform the world to a more just society.
I thought, “We have that!”
The Bardo Group imagines peace and justice every day. And we walk with each other even with our diverse geographies.
That is Sacred Space.
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Today, I would like to invite us all to build something together. Words that imagine justice for the lost, the least and the lonely. I am sure there is an official name for what I am proposing, but I am going to call it “communal haiku.” I will start us out with a haiku and I invite each reader to respond in their own way. Each of us building on the gift of one another. Sacred Space in community, building a gift together that imagines a transformed world.
This is inspired by a reading from on Hebrew scripture, Isaiah 25:6-10. Reaching back and including another community!
Celebrated wines poured
into cut-crystal goblets.
Prisoner’s freedom.
…
What comes next?
Shalom,
Terri Stewart
The BeZine 
Prisoners freedom
pouring forth from crystal tears
touched by God’s grace
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Crystal tears. Sounds so hard and so beautiful.
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we might
in celebration
re-IMAGINE God
not in the likeness of man
not a tyrant or a facist
a peaceful God
a centered God
all embracing
foregoing anger
foregoing judgement
a kind God
for a kinder humanity
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Maybe if we imagined a kind God, we would be a kinder humanity!
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Exactly! 🙂 Hope you enjoyed the retreat, Terri!
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touched by god’s grace
the tears transform into wine
sign of the divine
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Yes. Tears transform into wine. A sign pointing the way. Lovely.
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touched by God’s grace
walk gently on mother earth
care for each other
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Beautiful! And it wraps into the original meaning perfectly.
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BE, is all he said
a universe came to life
sacred creation..
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Beautiful! BE.
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May beings be free; at peace,
themselves in ev’ry
dimension — as pure water.
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Divine connects us.
Realize: no separation.
Love is the one bridge.
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Mmmm. Yes.
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