“God is more a calling, rather than an entity”
These words have stayed with me, along with the word “Re-Imagining.” Connect the words and you get: “Called to Re-Imagining.” Life is a calling to re-imagining. Re-birthing. Creation continues. New being.
On this holiday (Holy Day) celebrating the life and witness of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new Moses, a drum major for justice, a man for others, a Christ figure – we remember that we had a dream, a vision, a call to re-imagining, which caught fire and inspired black people to rise up from under the thumb of fear put on them by white patriarchy. And many open-hearted/open-minded white people joined in the struggle for freedom.
I invite you to see Selma, the movie.
When you re-imagine your life then you no longer allow others to define you. Look at Rosa Parks, the image of her sitting on the front of the bus enraged some white folks who benefited from the status quo, yet it inspired black folks leading them to liberation and a new life. Some folks still want the status quo. Others, women, blacks, LGBTQ community, the oppressed, have had to fight for the freedom to re-imagine their own lives. Many of you are freedom fighters.
I invite you to listen to your life, to ponder in your heart, what is calling out to you these days? What new images are coming up from deep within you, calling you to rise up to freedom and new life? The images in our mind can shrink and confine us and others, or they can empower and free us and others.
I suggest you read this poem aloud and slowly to yourself:
“You must give birth to your images
They are the future waiting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness you feel.
The future must enter you long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth … for the hour of clarity.”
-Rainer Marie Rilke
Allow the words and music to flow through you – opening inner spaces – releasing you to become your true self. Notice any images coming up from deep within your own being. Remember, the future must enter you long before it happens.
God has set you free – do not submit again to a yoke of slavery, and do not seek to keep others in a yoke of slavery.
With you in awe – wakening to the Presence in our midst calling us to be conscious, free, loving, and fully alive.
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