Please Use Me, Please Move Through Me, Episode 250
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.
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