250: Please Use Me, Please Move Through Me

There are moments when we suddenly find out that we're not separate from one another or from life... and in those moments we discover that what we're here to do is to love. Isn't that a possibility we all long for, and sometimes find so difficult to entertain - the opportunity to give love, to receive love, to have love flow through us into our work, into our relationships, into our friendships, into the street?

Perhaps if we quieten down our striving and inner chatter enough, we'll find deep rivers of love waiting to be expressed. Or maybe we could put ourselves in situations where - because of what we're practicing, or opening to, or how we're softening - we might be reached by the grace of the moment and discover all of this from what and who is around us.

Whichever way, it's our contention that to love and to trust in the capacity to love this heartbreaking and beautiful world, with all its tragedies and all its possibilities, is a necessary act of great faithfulness in life.

This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

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Here's our source for this week:

Grace 

It was Grace

Stunned by the last light of the sun

We were swimming in a green sea, as deep as a drum

There are things I must record, must praise

There are things I have to say about the fullness and the blaze

Of this beautiful life

The beloved watched the world on its knees with an infinite degree of separation

That was something to see

And my friend told me death is like taking off a tight shoe

And when I stopped looking for me

I was able to find you

Right there where everything is transcendent

I can feel myself opening up, getting closer

No hope is enough

I've stopped hoping, I'm learning to trust

I came to under that red moon

I was completely crushed

Please use me

Please move through me

Please unscrew me

Please loosen me up

Make music with me

Make everything stop

Make noise and make silence with me

Make love

Let me be love

Let me be loving

Let me give love, receive love and be nothing but love

In love and for love and with love

In love and for love and with love

Surrender, I do surrender

Move through me and feel me get out of the way

And tune into something more deep and reflective than what's to be achieved

Or perceived

Or affected

What's my problem?

I'm always drawn back to that wrestling match

Ten thoughts in the ring of my mind playing catch

I can't live for the noise in my head

I just want to dig a big ditch in the soil of my breath and bury my brain there

But love said

"If you bring forth what is within you

What you bring forth will save you

But if you do not bring forth what is within you

What you do not bring forth will destroy you”

It was Grace

Stunned by the last light of the sun

Swimming in a green sea as deep as a drum

There are things I must record, must praise

There are things I have to say about the fullness and the blaze

Of this beautiful life, of this beautiful life

Kae Tempest
www.kaetempest.co.uk

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