For the last 3 weeks, members of my church have been meeting in small groups online for Safe Conversations - honest, vulnerable looks at stories and experiences of racial prejudice and bias and our own, often-subconscious responses.
For me, it keeps coming back to the stories. Listening to someone else's reality without judgment or critique. Listening to learn. Listening for what is holy.
Holy Ground
Come.
Let me move myself over.
Sit a while
and share with me
your story.
Let your words
Filter through
the cracks and fissures
of my world,
past my certainties and creeds
and the neat arrangement
of my understanding,
until they take shape,
and grow.
Stretch the sinews of my conviction.
Push my inner parts aside.
Let your story hollow out in me
new holy ground
and let me witness
God’s eternity in you.
© Carol Shaw 072120
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