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Revolution

The enemy:
  love them
The oppressor:
  walk the extra mile
The Master:
  turn the other cheek

This doormat faith
seems too much to bear
in a world where those who bully
always seem to win

The enemy:
  imbalance them with love
The oppressor:
  shame the law that oppresses
The Master:
  turn the cheek as an equal

This rebellious faith
seems too much to bear
in a world where those who bully
are loved back to justice by the bullied

But this is heaven’s revolution
and we are invited into it
come let us worship
loves’ rebel, Jesus

...Roddy Hamilton/18 February 2011

Where lilies grow…
Bring forth one lily at a time with each stanza and place it in a vase.

Sanctuary:
a place where the dust of the world can be removed and feet are washed in fresh water that makes the journey possible again

Sanctuary:
a place where worry meets compassion and compassion loves worry enough to carry it a while

Sanctuary:
a place where weight of darkness is lifted a little and does not bear so heavily on your shoulders

Sanctuary:
a place where real laughter cracks the silence sufficiently to let through the light, enough that it cannot be put back

Sanctuary:
a place where that which is outside cannot harm that which is inside, and let’s what is inside take deep breathes of fresh, clean life once more

Sanctuary:
a place where time stands still so there is always enough to listen and hold and restore what worry has broken

Sanctuary:
a place where the gift of encouragement is generous and unconditional

Sanctuary:
the place where God holds the hand of those the world has hurt, and with a knowing squeeze leads them back into the world, together

Sanctuary:
the trysting place, the safe place, the bread and wine place, the Jesus place, the life-giving place, where lilies grow and where the sparrow finds a next

...Roddy Hamilton/25 February 2011

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