Gonna Let Life Move Me 

 

              Rev. Victoria Ingram                 January 8, 2012    Gonna Let Life  Gonna let life move me.  Gonne let life stir me deep.  Gonna let life wake me from an ancient sleep.    Gonna laugh all my laugher.  Gonna cry all my tears.  Gonna love the rain as deeply as the sun when it clears.     This song is full of paradox – let me show you what I mean:  GONNA – I am going to….directive, making a choice to, planful, decisive, engaged,     committed, in the NOW – I’ve made my claim…  LET – give myself permission, allow, surrender to what comes my way    I will no longer inhibit myself with should or musts  LIFE – the experience/the phenomenon around me, all of it – good, bad, planned,    unplanned, laughter or tears, choosing life  MOVE – inspire, take me from where I am now to something/one/place new,     upset my status quo, stir me deep – shake me up, cause me to doubt what     I’ve always believed/thought to be true, I’ll see with new eyes, hear with new ears  ME – a choice I’ve made for myself – not for everyone else – a promise I’ve made to     Myself to live with a new awareness, perspective    Song was written/developed to support the “the work that reconnects,” a part of the  GREAT TURNING described by Joanna Macy (David Kurten – The Great Turning)  Macy is an ecologist, bioethicist who has been studying deep ecology and talking about  what we must do to save our lives and the earth for many years.      A concern for the state of the earth, and by extension, for ourselves as a part of the  interconnected web.  Has been studying and speaking for years about the damage inflicted  on our life systems by structural causes – such as industrial growth, society focused on  materialism and reductionism.   www.joannamacy.com    Ms. Macy and others through work on the Great Turning, point to the evidence for a need to  take action to shift consciousness and slow the damage to earth and all beings.      She calls this the Work that Reconnects – this song developed to support and facilitate that  workd.  Created to be used by groups and individuals yearning to be included and  supported in the shifts taking place in the world today, toward building life‐sustaining  societies.      We need resources and remedies, teachers and fellow travelers on the path to help us  learn, practice, grow and act in ways that sustain us individually and as a species.  Each of  us needs to learn to see in new ways and experience our lives differently in order to help  heal the world.   

There is a personal spiral of activities/choices/movements that feed our growth,  understanding and insight:  1.  Opening to GRATITUDE for the gift of life  RUMI poem – A SMALL GREEN ISLAND, reconnecting with our empathy and  personal power  J. Macy – “gratitude quiets the frantic mind and brings us back to our source.   2. OWNING OUR PAIN FOR THE WORLD  Opening our selves to the pain of others, compassion and suffering with,   Not to be afraid and succumb to panic or paralysis  3. SEEING WITH NEW EYES  Imagine, dream   MACHADO poem – IS MY SOUL ASLEEP?  A fresh understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others/the world  PROBLEM:  setting ourselves apart and using others for our gain vs. seeing our links  with others  4. GOING FORTH  Can be hard to choose where to start:  just find what you love to work on and take  joy in that  THE GREAT DANGER:  apathy, the deadening of the mind and heart to widespread  suffering and our access to knowledge of it – sorrow, fear, pain, helplessness  The Old Mule in the Well 

 

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A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well.  The farmer heard the mule 'braying' ‐or‐whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After  carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that  neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead, he called his  neighbors together and told them what had happened ...and enlisted them to help haul dirt  to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.  Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued  shoveling and the dirt hit his back ... a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that  every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back, he should shake it off and step up! This  he did, blow after blow. "Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and  step up!" He repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or how  distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on shaking  it off and stepping up!  It wasn't long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly over the  wall of that well! What seemed like it would bury him, actually blessed him...all because of  the manner in which he handled his adversity. If we face our problems, respond to them  positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness, or self‐pity, the adversities that come  along to bury us usually have within them the potential to benefit and bless us.     

Gonna Let Life Move Me - The First Unitarian Church of Hamilton

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