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Jeremiah 6:16 —
Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads,
and look, and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way lies; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls...
God help us to change.
To change ourselves
and to change the world.
To know the need for it.
To deal with the pain of it.
To feel the joy of it.
To undertake the journey
without understanding the destination.
The art of gentle revolution.
Amen.
Source: Michael Leunig, Common Prayer Collection (North Blackburn: HarperCollins, 1993)
quoted in Darren Cronshaw, “Australians Beyond the Church: Growing Fresh Expressions
of Church Today” (Canberra: University House, 5-7 October 2009), 1.
I will try
to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening
scope, but enjoying the freedom that
Scope eludes my grasp, that there is not finality of vision,
that I have perceived nothing completely,
that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.
Source: A.R. Ammons, finale of “Corsons Inlet,” in Collected Poems: 1951-1971
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1972), 151.