"The River is flowing. Silently flowing
The river is flowing down to the sea
Holy God carry me, Child I will always be
Spirit immersed in me, flowing and free"
This photo is from the Candle Cloth Prayer Project which is on display in the DeVos Convention Center. It is from the Wisconsin Conference's Ebenezer Sheboygan UCC. It's beautiful in its' simplicity and inspires me as I imagine the creators; with a vision of contrasting colors and intensity.
A journey through any project, on any scale births from a small vein of water; a vision - often glassy clear although sometimes muddied and without definition. Some birth a grandiose vision and scale back, others start simple and end in an exhuberance of tangible completion.
Visions flow like rivers into finished pieces or bodies and sometimes, into the mouth of larger seas of opportunity. Like the intense process Rev. Otis Moss, III undertook during Friday evening worship, linguistically connecting the simplistic comma from Bible texts into an "if then" conjecture of processes, eventually bringing us to the United Church of Christ, here and now -these "rivers" are relevant to the flow of life, they birth new beginnings, wash our wrongs, and baptise us into new journeys in a constant never ending sea of Immersion.
We are still speaking, our Immersion is as clear as the borders of the Ebenezer Candle Cloth; although within borders infinitate in its' beauty to affect humanity and life while the imprint in my mind from yesterday affects today's journey.
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