Quiet Day: Sabbath

We enjoyed an excellent Quiet Day led by Mike Tricker at St Mary's Runwell today, exploring themes of Sabbath including what the Sabbath is for and Sabbath as resistance.

I wrote the following meditation in the course of the day:

In the cacophony of distractions

In the restlessness of 24-7 consumption
In the cruelty of gratuitous self-centredness and selfishness
In the mindset of me, me, me
In the grasping for power, prestige and position
May an alternative be visioned, voiced 

and enacted and practised
An alternative that is still
An alternative that is gentle
An alternative that is generous
An alternative that is liberating
An alternative that is outpouring and kenotic
An alternative that is sacrificial and salvific
Let justice roll on like a river, 

righteousness like a never-failing stream;
an endless river of righteous living.

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River City People - True Stories From The Revolution.