Beloveds,
Rise and shine--
Rise and shine
for within you
is the light of love.
Rise and shine--
with new compassion
and joy,
for your gifts
are needed
and appreciated!
Today the Universe
is calling
and asking
if you will share your light.
It is time...
To Rise and Shine!
Have A Beautiful Day!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Rise and Shine
Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real).
She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth."
And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression.
She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Patiently Waiting
Beloveds,
For more time than we can imagine
GOD has said...
"I will wait for you,
patiently---
even while many of you dis-regard
each moment of grace
and move with selfish intent."
Few have heard
but GOD still speaks...
"I will wait for you
patiently---
through your time of greed;
your wars and your petty arguments."
And as we have
begun to listen
the Few have become More...
Many of us now
hear the call,
the Divine Whisper...
"I will wait,
patiently--
for I know that
beyond your fear
and need for separateness,
there is only LOVE."
And GOD's Hope remains,
for even in the darkness
of the night,
Stars Light the Universe.
Are you listening?
Are you a Star?
This is the Word of LOVE!
For more time than we can imagine
GOD has said...
"I will wait for you,
patiently---
even while many of you dis-regard
each moment of grace
and move with selfish intent."
Few have heard
but GOD still speaks...
"I will wait for you
patiently---
through your time of greed;
your wars and your petty arguments."
And as we have
begun to listen
the Few have become More...
Many of us now
hear the call,
the Divine Whisper...
"I will wait,
patiently--
for I know that
beyond your fear
and need for separateness,
there is only LOVE."
And GOD's Hope remains,
for even in the darkness
of the night,
Stars Light the Universe.
Are you listening?
Are you a Star?
This is the Word of LOVE!
Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real).
She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth."
And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression.
She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."
Friday, October 29, 2010
How Will YOU Walk?
Beloveds,
Today I embrace flexibility.
With respect, I will bend
like a willow tree;
have the courage, resolve
and strength of an oak tree
and the sweetness of a fig tree.
I will walk with gentleness
and appreciation for the
uniqueness and contributions
of all sentient beings.
Divine Spirit shows me the way!
How will you walk?
Today I embrace flexibility.
With respect, I will bend
like a willow tree;
have the courage, resolve
and strength of an oak tree
and the sweetness of a fig tree.
I will walk with gentleness
and appreciation for the
uniqueness and contributions
of all sentient beings.
Divine Spirit shows me the way!
How will you walk?
Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real).
She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth."
And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression.
She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Love in the Time of Cholera in Haiti by Rev. Marcia Dyson
Love in the Time of the Haitian Cholera
http://www.theroot.com/views/black-love-time-haitian-cholera
The Haitian people's will to survive, and thrive, is mighty. It's time for black Americans to spread some love to our Caribbean cousins -- love that can be felt in tangible ways.
By: Marcia Dyson | Posted: October 27, 2010 at 4:26 PM
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I've always admired the haunting beauty and sad grace of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera. But I never imagined that his title would conjure the force we'll need to fight Haiti's freshest suffering: an outbreak of cholera that threatens the loss of thousands of lives.
It's fitting that the novel in which Márquez temporarily loosens the hold of magical realism is the one that symbolizes Haiti's plight today. There's little state magic to speak of, and the economic realities that this country faces are tragic and legion. But my God, the will and spirit of the people remains indescribably, well, magical, to say the least. I've gotten to know Haiti and its people a lot better over the last two years as I've served and traveled throughout the complicated outlines of this besieged geography.
Haiti's present troubles may yet prove faithful to a script that seems passed down from on high: A small but mighty colony of oppressed black subjects will resist and rise just when nobody gives them a chance in hell to survive. That was certainly true of Haiti at its birth.
In 1804 the nation roared into existence after a decade-long slave revolt fomented by Toussaint Louverture, which ultimately resulted in Napoleon getting beaten at his own game -- and the world's first republic winning independence from France.
Haiti's will to rise was certainly challenged during U.S. military occupation of the country from 1915 to 1934, and its national urge to strength was surely suppressed as the U.S. exerted direct or indirect control of the Haitian economy from 1905 to 1947.
And through a string of tyrants, incompetents and soiled idealists at the helm of the nation (some with American support, or at least with our willingness to look the other way while the country was lost and looted), Haiti's people have managed to keep faith, even though that faith has been unjustly savaged and satirized as "Voodoo" -- with the scare quotes in tow -- little more than a hodgepodge of hocus pocus and superstition.
But that's the retail version of Vodou, pushed in the marketplace of ignorance and bigotry. In Haitian Vodou, practiced widely by much of the population, the spirits of the departed -- sa nou pa we yo, those we don't see -- don't fly away but remain near to those left behind, permitting the suffering living the triumphant advantage of laughing in the face of death.
That's not a fatalistic position but a supremely hopeful one; after all, the living have had so much death to defy. Is Vodou any more unrealistic a remedy than, say, colonial exploitation and schemes of duplicitous rationality deployed by would-be saviors in military or ministerial garb?
http://www.theroot.com/views/black-love-time-haitian-cholera
http://www.theroot.com/views/black-love-time-haitian-cholera
The Haitian people's will to survive, and thrive, is mighty. It's time for black Americans to spread some love to our Caribbean cousins -- love that can be felt in tangible ways.
By: Marcia Dyson | Posted: October 27, 2010 at 4:26 PM
+/- Text Size
Permalink
HIDE
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I've always admired the haunting beauty and sad grace of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera. But I never imagined that his title would conjure the force we'll need to fight Haiti's freshest suffering: an outbreak of cholera that threatens the loss of thousands of lives.
It's fitting that the novel in which Márquez temporarily loosens the hold of magical realism is the one that symbolizes Haiti's plight today. There's little state magic to speak of, and the economic realities that this country faces are tragic and legion. But my God, the will and spirit of the people remains indescribably, well, magical, to say the least. I've gotten to know Haiti and its people a lot better over the last two years as I've served and traveled throughout the complicated outlines of this besieged geography.
Haiti's present troubles may yet prove faithful to a script that seems passed down from on high: A small but mighty colony of oppressed black subjects will resist and rise just when nobody gives them a chance in hell to survive. That was certainly true of Haiti at its birth.
In 1804 the nation roared into existence after a decade-long slave revolt fomented by Toussaint Louverture, which ultimately resulted in Napoleon getting beaten at his own game -- and the world's first republic winning independence from France.
Haiti's will to rise was certainly challenged during U.S. military occupation of the country from 1915 to 1934, and its national urge to strength was surely suppressed as the U.S. exerted direct or indirect control of the Haitian economy from 1905 to 1947.
And through a string of tyrants, incompetents and soiled idealists at the helm of the nation (some with American support, or at least with our willingness to look the other way while the country was lost and looted), Haiti's people have managed to keep faith, even though that faith has been unjustly savaged and satirized as "Voodoo" -- with the scare quotes in tow -- little more than a hodgepodge of hocus pocus and superstition.
But that's the retail version of Vodou, pushed in the marketplace of ignorance and bigotry. In Haitian Vodou, practiced widely by much of the population, the spirits of the departed -- sa nou pa we yo, those we don't see -- don't fly away but remain near to those left behind, permitting the suffering living the triumphant advantage of laughing in the face of death.
That's not a fatalistic position but a supremely hopeful one; after all, the living have had so much death to defy. Is Vodou any more unrealistic a remedy than, say, colonial exploitation and schemes of duplicitous rationality deployed by would-be saviors in military or ministerial garb?
http://www.theroot.com/views/black-love-time-haitian-cholera
Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real).
She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth."
And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression.
She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."
Cooperation
Beloveds,
What we need most right now
is a spirit of cooperation.
Universal school yard fights
with drones and ak-47's
are destroying our communities,
our resources,
our children,
our hearts
and our Earth.
Instead we must heal the sick,
feed the hungry,
educate our children
build communities with
respect for eachother
and offer All a reason
to exist in peace with loving cooperation.
Cooperation---This is the work
that we must invest in NOW.
What we need most right now
is a spirit of cooperation.
Universal school yard fights
with drones and ak-47's
are destroying our communities,
our resources,
our children,
our hearts
and our Earth.
Instead we must heal the sick,
feed the hungry,
educate our children
build communities with
respect for eachother
and offer All a reason
to exist in peace with loving cooperation.
Cooperation---This is the work
that we must invest in NOW.
Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real).
She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth."
And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression.
She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Patience
Beloveds,
Patience
is one of the greatest
of life's jewels
that you are given
to develop.
Use Patience and you
will accomplish much
as you enrich all
those around you!
Take small steps each day
and watch the great distance
you travel with appreciation.
Today breathe deeply and know
that the way through
each challenge comes
with Patience!
Patience
is one of the greatest
of life's jewels
that you are given
to develop.
Use Patience and you
will accomplish much
as you enrich all
those around you!
Take small steps each day
and watch the great distance
you travel with appreciation.
Today breathe deeply and know
that the way through
each challenge comes
with Patience!
Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real).
She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth."
And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression.
She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Living In Today
Beloveds,
Iif we live always
in yesterdays,
we miss the gift of today.
Meet this new day
with appreciation and gratitude
for all that is possible.
Embrace and prepare
to use your divine gifts
as you accept the challenge
of life in this new day!
P. S. Please pray for the
People of Haiti
and all those who need
hope and healing everywhere!
Iif we live always
in yesterdays,
we miss the gift of today.
Meet this new day
with appreciation and gratitude
for all that is possible.
Embrace and prepare
to use your divine gifts
as you accept the challenge
of life in this new day!
P. S. Please pray for the
People of Haiti
and all those who need
hope and healing everywhere!
Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real).
She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth."
And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression.
She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."
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