Mark Scandrette

Make me an agent of your healing and justice
To weep with those who suffer
To speak for my sisters and brothers
whose voices cannot be heard

I join the struggle
of love’s triumph over greed
Spending myself for the captive
Praying that more liberators will be sent
until every slave is free.

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Give me courage to be fully alive today
To embrace this moment with destiny
To choose life, make beauty and risk love
with every thought
in every touch
with every word
in every act
with every breath…
in grateful submission
to the mystery
of being and belonging
to this people
and place
and to
you.

“If I am a scholar, then where is my library?
If I am an activist, then who are the people I liberate?
If I am a writer, then where is the manuscript?
If I am a mystic, then where is my cave?
If I am a lover, then who is my love?”

“The sunshine sooths the bruises of my psychic ache. I could spend a thousand moons here before I miss the sweet embrace. My joys and pains are solitary. And even as the healer holds me I am plotting my escape. “

Something Adam Klein and I wrote for this Learning Lab:
Created to be creative
We enact our destiny
Embracing the energy of the Spirit
To risk making beauty
With our whole lives

–Amen