<div>keely wrote from the post at the bottom:</div>
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<div>I'll continue to share what I've learned from the book, and pray that truth, reason, and love prevail. It's still OK to pray for love, isn't it? The book doesn't make it real clear . . .</div>
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<div>A prayer/song for love that is passionate, wise and beautiful beyond words; lyrics are given below: YouTube audio/video of Jane Siberry's "Sail Across The Water" from the album "When I Was A Boy" at URL below. Skip the video and just listen to the song, unless you want to watch a group of "priestesses" praying/singing to the ocean on the shore... Some might find this ridiculous, though I don't. The audio on this YouTube offering is passable, but preferably listen to this song from CD or vinyl on a high resolution stereo, which YouTube videos often cannot accommodate. I don't think music can be experienced at the deepest levels when watching accompanying video, though the video features Siberry with a group of women who make clear the "prayerful" dimensions of the song. Those who have an inclination to view spirituality from a "female" perspective might find value in the video:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvFzeTz2pX4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvFzeTz2pX4</a></div>
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<div><br><strong><em>Jane Siberry</em> </strong></div>
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<div><strong><u>Sail Across the Water </u></strong></div>
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<div>From the album "When I Was A Boy"</div>
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<div>love is trembling<br>trembling like the little bird we<br>hold within our hands<br>love is bending<br>bending towards the worried brow<br>here, let me wipe away your tears<br>love is kneeling<br>above the broken body<br>
the ever-upturned face<br>love is missing<br>all the words are broken, help me<br>I cannot find my way<br>no, I can't<br>I need you love<br>come on love<br><br>will you sail 'cross the water<br>and lay your wisdom down?<br>
and love will you sail 'cross the water<br>and tell us what you found?<br>and love will you sail 'cross the water<br>and hold us when we drown?<br>and love will you sail 'cross the water?<br>is anybody listening...?<br>
<br>love is trembling<br>trembling like the leaves<br>above the baby's bed<br>love is streaming<br>streaming with the tears that<br>we cannot seem to shed<br>love is frozen<br>frozen in the figure they just<br>pulled from the subway grate<br>
love is burning<br>burning with the anger that we all feel<br>against which we kneel,<br>our faces pressed into the lap of loneliness<br>come on love<br><br>will you sail 'cross the water<br>and lay your wisdom down?<br>
and love will you sail 'cross the water<br>and tell us what you found?<br>and love will you sail 'cross the water<br>and hold us when we drown?<br>and love will you sail 'cross the water?<br><br>are we not willing? are we not trying?<br>
are we not trusting? are we not crying?<br>are we not children? are we not stumbling?<br>are we not wondering? are we not?<br><br>will you sail 'cross the water<br>and lay your wisdom down?<br>and love will you sail 'cross the water<br>
and tell us what you found?<br>and love will you sail 'cross the water<br>and hold us when we drown?<br>and love will you sail 'cross the water?<br><br>are we not willing? are we not bending?<br>are we not frozen? are we not trembling?<br>
are we not children? are we not trying?<br>are we not wondering? are we not?<br><br>love is trembling...<br>------------------------------------------</div>
<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/13/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">keely emerinemix</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com" target="_blank">kjajmix1@msn.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>After this, Visionaires, you'll have to go to the blog: <br><br>A most Southernly "Dear gracious! How silly of me!" for neglecting mention that neo-Confederates have a near-unanimous desire to see the South secede from the Union. Still. Now. THIS Union . . . our country. The idea of a free Southern Republic continues to tantalize the minds of our slavery-embracing, segregation-defending, homosexual-hating, female-subjugating, democracy-despising Southrons and Copperheads, and the beginning of a new millennium hasn't lessened it a bit.<br>
<br>Gosh. Todd Palin wants Alaska to secede from the Union; a whole raft of Neo-Confederates want to secede as well. And here I am in Idaho, reminding me rather starkly of the old 70s song whose refrain was "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- stuck in the middle with you!"<br>
<br>I'll continue to share what I've learned from the book, and pray that truth, reason, and love prevail. It's still OK to pray for love, isn't it? The book doesn't make it real clear . . . <br><br>Keely<br>
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