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Tag: Colorado Springs
MicroViolence
It’s never just
Books
Bathrooms
Pronouns
It’s not just
Marriage
Jobs
Names
It’s not just
Dancing
Sports
Scouts
“Belief”
or “policy”
It is
Mental health
Personhood
Belovedness
Anti-Violence
It is
Breathing
Existing
Always
Every Word
For or Against
Counts
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Rainbow Tears
God is crying
Rainbow Tears
God who hung
Their Rainbow
Weapon
In the Sky
Before Jesus
Tread the Earth
God who Dances
With Abandon
God
who Protects
Joseph Lady’s/Rainbow Cloak
Ruth’s Found Family
Jesus of Two Dads
Baptizing the Egyptian Eunuch
God’s weeping
rainbow tears
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Dancing
Erasure
Erasure
You can’t erase Queer
It doesn’t matter
How hard You try
With bullying
Hate
Guns
Bonfires
And bookbans
Shaming cultures
And evil gods
Can’t make People “Don’t say gay”
Evidence of “Roommates”
Hermaphrodites
Two Spirits (don’t appropriate)
Third genders
And Trans*
People
Go back
to the beginning
Of time
And Don’t
Get me started
On the Bible
With the Poly Trinity
David & Jonathan
Joseph’s Rainbow/Lady’s Coat
God’s pronouns
Revealed in flames
Ruth and Naomi
Song of Songs
The Eunuch
The Bible is Queer
You can’t erase
LGBTQIA
It Only
Gets clarified
As time Goes on
So YES
You have
To learn
New terms
#NotSorry
Yes we will
Have
No we will
Not shut up
Personhood
Is on the line
You can’t erase
People
It hasn’t worked
Yet
And it never
Will
I promise you
I will keep
Remembering
And Naming
And Believing
And Listening
And History shows me
I am not alone
QUEER are Beautifully
And Fiercely made
In the image
Of God
No one will
Ever erase
That
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Sacred Spaces
A Sacred Space
Does not mean pews or Prayer
It means safety
for one to be their full self
A Sanctuary, does not mean a Pastor
or a Sign that says “Everyone’s Welcome”
It is a place where the food is abundant
and the boundaries keep people safe
Church is not a building
Its the Community that its neighbors
God is not an authority or a shamemaster
They are a home to safely come to, at the end of the long journey
Safety is not straight heteronormativity ableism in middleclass suburbs
Its the freedom for everyone to dance in their club
in their beautiful and fierce incarnation
without being shot, or being hassled on the way home, or the cops being called
Sacred Spaces
Means a Space for everyone to be Sacred, no more, no less.
If there is one things all humans need–
its real and salient sacred spaces
Selah
Don’t break humans
Selah,
Don’t break the Sacred Spaces
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