State of Grace Document

Poetry & Music

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Together in a State of Grace
—By Marie Knapp,
poet, author of two souls linked

Grace and the Great Turning
—By Joanna Macy, Buddhist scholar and activist
Excerpted from The Tao of Democracy by Tom Atlee (www.co-intelligence.org), who excerpted it from an interview with YES! Magazine (www.futurenet.org)

Pebbles' Grace Poem
—Craig D. Barlow, poet

so there is Poem
—Craig D. Barlow, poet

By Our Own Fear
—Song by The Wyrd Sisters
Inside the Dreaming CD

State of Grace
—Song by Steve Winwood

Together in a State of Grace
—By Marie Knapp,
poet, author of two souls linked
(www.dallacor.com)
—inspired by The State of Grace Document

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We work together
In a state of grace.
Our strengths are
The gifts we bring.
Our weaknesses are strengths too.
My weakness invites
Your infusion of wisdom,
As yours does mine.

May we see genius
    And honour it;
May we see stress
    And embrace it;
May we see edges,
    And fold them in
With truthful acknowledging
    And caring resourcefulness.

When it is time
May we gracefully depart,
Knowing we have left the world
A better place
Because of us.
May we individually bring
Hope to new ventures
To new relationships
Built on graceful memories
Of what is now.

Pebbles' Grace
—By Craig D. Barlow, poet

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Pebbles falling
into the lake.
Ripples appearing
not knowing
where they go.
But
to act
to touch
to flow.
Your ripples
cleanse me
move me
caress me.
You are my pebble.
The lake we share.
For as pebbles
gather together,
water arises
bathing us All.

— Craig D. Barlow
tel: (613) 792-3872
220 -1170 Fisher Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1Z 5R7

so there is
—By Craig D. Barlow, poet

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so there is
Life is
birth,
change,
death,
so there is
Grace
home leaving,
home coming,
home making,
so there is
Compassion
why,
how,
now,
so there is
Wisdom
fields,
deserts,
gardens,
so there is
Joy
one,
many,
all,
so there is
Beauty
known,
unknown,
dreams,
so there is
Courage
Life is
so there is
Grace

— Craig D. Barlow
tel: (613) 792-3872
220 -1170 Fisher Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1Z 5R7

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When you act on behalf
  of something greater than yourself,
    you begin
      to feel it acting through you
with a power that is greater than your own.

This is grace.

Today, as we take risks
    for the sake of something greater
    than our separate, individual lives,
    we are feeling graced
  by other beings and by Earth itself.

Those with whom and on whose behalf we act
  give us strength
    and eloquence
      and staying power
        we didn’t know we had.

We just need to practice knowing that
  and remembering that we are sustained
    by each other
      in the web of life.

Our true power comes as a gift, like grace,
  because in truth it is sustained by others.
If we practice drawing on the wisdom and beauty
    and strengths
      of our fellow humans
        and our fellow species
we can go into any situation
  and trust
    that the courage and intelligence required
      will be supplied.

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By Our Own Fear
—Song by The Wyrd Sisters
Inside the Dreaming CD

I left
And I left it all behind
I left you
I know
That I never really, really let you go
But oh I’ve been trying

Back then
We could not of understood
The way love worked then
We had only our two hearts to
Judge our love by
And oh how we judged it then

As we struck out into foreign places
Tried ourselves against the masses
Judged our lives by others glances
And by our own fears

Since then
I’ve been looking long and hard
To find the answers
To the questions we could never dare
To ask then
How I wish we had asked them

As we struck out into foreign places
Tried ourselves against the masses
Judged our lives by others glances
And by our own fear

By our own fear
We were walking down
A path of darkness
By our own fear
We abandoned those we loved
By our own fear
We left the road that led to freedom
By our own fear

I left
And I left it all behind
I left my heart there
And I’ll never get it back
Till I face you
And the love we left behind
We left our hearts there
And we’ll never get them back

Until we strike out into foreign places
Try ourselves against the masses
Don’t judge our lives
By others glances
And by our own fear

Until we strike into foreign places
Try ourselves against the masses
Don’t judge our lives
By others glances
Or by our own fear
By our own fear

I left
And I left it all behind
I left my heart there
And I’ll never get it back
Till I face you

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State of Grace
—Song by Steve Winwood

Sometimes your life can be sidetracked, getting lost in things you don't need
But we all lose direction in a world of greed
Some people's lives end in ruin, some people's lives never start
Someone knows what you're doing deep in your heart

In the hour of need you stood ready, looked danger right in the face
Your heart is moved by the spirit when you're living
Living in a state of grace

There's a world never ending, sorrow and pain don't exist
We can live there together, you can't resist

Just when you think you can't take it, dreams disappear into space
Trust in your heart, you can make it, when you're living
Living in a state of grace

There's nothing worse than the sorrow of loved ones you have lost
You can't face tomorrow, you can't bear the cross
But just remember that darkness in this world has no place
You've got so much to give now

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