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1 – Main Street, 15 – The Mill, 16 – Train Station & Walking Trail, 14 – The Terrace.
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.
I’m from fudge and eyeglasses,
from Imogene and Alafair.
I’m from the know-it-alls
and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I’m from He restoreth my soul
with a cottonball lamb
and ten verses I can say myself.
I’m from Artemus and Billie’s Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost
to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.
Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments –
snapped before I budded –
leaf-fall from the family tree.
Play
One – U2
Forever Young – Bob Dylan
You’ve Got a Home – Christa Wells
Changes – David Bowie
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Pause
Where are you from, who/where are you now, where are you going/who are you becoming?
Who are your people?
If you were walking down a street that represented your history and community, what would you see?
Stop
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Record
Take time to respond.
As little or as much as you would like.
and must smile on what it makes,
even if it’s treacherous, or frowned upon
by people too polite to feel
the pleasures of the truth and laugh.
Play
A Country of My Own – Thad Cockrell
The Longing – All Sons & Daughters
Be Thou My Vision – The Scottish Festival Singers
One Day Like This – Elbow
Pause
What would you do with the Mill? What could this place be?
What parts of your life are ripe for rebuilding?
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to build?
What broken narratives do you need to retire?
If your focus is not to “prove” but to “improve”, what is available?
Stop
Record
Take time to respond.
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Play
All The Road Running – Mark Knopfler, Emmy Lou Harris
Give a Man a Home – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Dreams Come True – Brandon Flowers
Don’t Carry It All – The Decemberists
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Marcus Mumford
Pause
What is your next step?
What clutter is in your way, what is slowing you down?
Can you see the path before you? Where is it taking you?
Stop
Record
Take time to respond.
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace.
In such places love can blossom.
Play
Trusty and True – Damien Rice
Meet Your Maker – John Mark Pantana
Running For So Long – Parker Ainsworth
The Lord is My Shepherd – Paul Zach
Redemption – Maximilian & One Hope Project
Beautiful Day – JJ Heller
Pause
Is it easy or difficult for you to find rest? Why?
Where do you go when you need rest?
Where are you finding beauty? If you are not, where can you look?
What does Sabbath mean to you? What place does it have in your life?
Stop
for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.