Dismantling the systems that break us. A prayer towards transformation.
Within us and all around us
liberation is not available without the embracing of transformation.
Without imagining a world that cultivates care, belonging, reciprocity, and humanity.
The end of systematized, structural, gendered, racialized violence.
A world where justice is about restoration rather than punishment.
Where solidarity is culture.
Mutual sharing and care for the environment is our common sense.
We know we cannot outperform the crisis of attempting to thrive in post-colonial capitalism,
which demands of us-
cognitive dissonance
isolation
repression
shame
blame.
As we pray each day towards Liberation-
May we find it’s quiet hints.
May we formulate paths where there seem to be none.
May we have courage and faith towards the possibility of a different way of being.
May we create community of care, remembering that we are stronger together.
May we come together to cry, to laugh, to sing, to imagine, to create.
May we give where we are able.
May we harness our gifts, privileges, and opportunities towards transformative action, Towards the world we wish to see.
May we find-
courage
strength
solidarity
belonging
integrity
In ways we may have yet to experience in our lifetimes. May it
echo
echo
echo
to every curvature of this earth. May we exist as love -
incarnation
bloom
germination
propagation
May we live to
sustain ourselves
our loved ones
our community
our siblings of all kinds
our home on earth
the universe
that surrounds us.
And so it is.