God created and
it was good. Freedom from
perfection’s tyranny.
Creation
What is ‘Basebuilding?’
Basebuilding:
Foundations built on faith, conviction, and justice.
Collaboration with community, church,
ancestors, prophets,
and future generations.
Unique in poetic and prophetic imagination
speaking and doing
an alternative narrative and
story into being.
Renouncing and denouncing
the narrative and
story of domination and supremacy
through a communal vision,
achievable and concrete,
grassroots grown,
in our ecclesial spaces
and beyond
for the queering and decolonizing
and expanding
and including
of Beloved Community.
Basebuilding:
Intentional connections and relationships,
with imagination,
as power
and wholistic transformation
for the well-being
of all people and creation.
Citizenship in Heaven (Response to Philippians 3:20-21)
Our citizenship is in Heaven;
not in the systems and structures
that our societies value:
power maintenance,
economic control,
and resource exploitation,
by which people and creation are
oppressed and marginalized
for the comfort and supremacy
of a few.
Our citizenship is in Heaven;
in the Love and Justice of God
that transforms our hearts, churches, and societies
through the model of our Savior,
Jesus Christ,
and the power of
the Holy Spirit,
by power sharing,
economic jubilee –
equitable resource stewardship –
and communal creation caretaking.
Our citizenship is in Heaven
by co-creating Heaven on Earth –
this Earth –
here and now,
for all people
and creation.
Amen.
Doxology
God of Love:
Working for the flourishing of all people –
toppling white supremacy, patriarchy, and affluence –
dispersing power to all people –
enabling all of creation to live fully.
Centering marginalized and oppressed voices
from prophetic resistance
to Kingdom community
of holistic well-being.
Racism, homophobia, sexism –
all tools of oppression and domination –
cast into the flames of Hell.
Hell:
the chosen rejection of God’s love
and flourishing of God’s creation.
And the God of wholeness
will be uplifted and
reign in Love,
Eternally.
Amen.
Hope [Inspired by Rabia’s ‘The Way the Forest Shelters’]
I have confidence
in God’s miraculous love
amidst this time of terror –
through signs and symbols
from Mother Earth.
In the serotinous cones of the lodgepole pines –
resins dripping and releasing seeds
after consumed by rampant wildfires –
bringing a new generation of life
amidst death.
In the interdependent relationships of plants –
the trinity of beans, corn, and squash –
Holy Sisters, mutually sharing life-giving
minerals, nitrogen, fertilizer, and water –
amidst times of depletion and scarcity.
In the ecstatic ecstasy of human touch and companionship –
the wells of physical interconnection
and soul-expanding depths of conversation
amidst the valleys of shadow and despair.
There is a tremendous constancy of
Possibility,
hope and New Life,
all plainly modeled for us from
our Holy Mother, Earth –
and embedded in our incarnate bodies –
if we only listen
and follow.
Deacon Grant 