Love like you live in a world where death wasn't the last word. – Jarrod McKenna
Let your activism
be a love affair
with Love.
Don't lose that heart space.
That precious tender heart space.
That ‘my enemy is my sister/brother' space.
Ghost that is Holy in this place, space.
This is holy ground.
This is un/common ground.
Every bush engulfed in flames.
Fire that consumes
but does not destroy.
Don't let ideology take that ground.
Don't let ‘in/out' rob the gentle of the earth.
Don't let judgment snatch the empathy between your toes, between us.
Blind ideology is a cheap counterfeit to blinding compassion.
Slow down, fear not, the scales will fall.
Wait for the darkness to dazzle.
In the silence you'll see again,
nothing but Mercy,
for the first time.
Ideology is the cold leftovers of the banquet of awe, revelation, and wonder.
Cynicism, judgementalism, bitterness, hardness, self-righteousness, will leave you hungry, alone.
Why eat cold leftovers?
You've been invited to the Table,
There is a place set for you at Love's feast.
It's just on the other side of right and wrong.
You'll cross a line of riot cops,
Trespass over the boundary of us and them,
Then push past where society's security asks Compassion for ID.
Ignore them.
Grace, she'll lead.
You can't miss it.
You'll hear the music.
Then counterfeit “non-violence” will be boring, only absence. It won't warm you, burn you or transform you.
Then imitation “justice” will revolt you. It's inability to heal will reveal it for what it really is.
Speak to me like a lover,
call me forward like a preacher,
call me by my new name
more ancient that what I have suffered.
Baptise me in that Presence,
NONVIOLENT FIRE.
You'll know it by its aftermath.
Awe.
Wonder.
Astonishment.
Like if a dead man sat up and started to speak.
Love like you live in a world where death wasn't the last word.
The aftermath is mercy.
An aftermath of mercy for all of us,
for everything.
Both the whole
and every grain of sand.
Fight with nonviolent FIRE
knowing everything will become that heart space.
That NONVIOLENT FIRE will flood all things.
It falls like a sparrow,
and aches like a God on the gallows.
Let your activism
be a love affair
with Love.
A Love that is stronger than death.
Contributed and Written by: Jarrod McKenna
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Twitter: @jarrodmckenna
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Jarrod is passionate about people experiencing and learning to live God’s saving love. He is the Teaching Pastor at Cornerstone Church, Perth
(Australia), a co-instigator of #LoveMakesAWay movement and co-founder of #FirstHomeProject where he lives with 17 recently arrived refugees.
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