Saturday, June 6, 2020

power perversion 06.07.2020


Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…
[go; baptize, teach, remember]
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
                                                                                                              Matt 28:19-20

power perversion                                                                                      Erling Shultz, June 2020


Jesus empowered and en-tasked
     toward justice living and mercy giving:
simple instructions to build a Kingdom,
     altered to ‘build it and they shall come’
          so we might sit in the power inherent;
simple instructions of go –
          baptize, teach, remember;
     casting aside the for what, for why, for who
          so we might focus on the authority delivered

tis time, once again, to self-examine our empowering;
     who do we baptize, what do we teach,
          and what essential have we failed to remember?

a trinitarian power outpouring
          to transform the world
     hapless seized for white dominion,
          and all that is left is a specialness illusion
(an intrinsic hate separateness
 ineptly preserving what was never theirs)

a trinitarian power sent out
          to engage and connect,
          to relate and include,
     humbly passed on to those on the edge,
          is the divine/human communion
(dignity raising of the other
 gives rise to the dignity we already have)

our Breath, Life, Spirit
     abides, engages, enfleshes, empowers
          particularly manifest in mass mutuality


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