Grace
The smile of God, kept frozen by chilling creeds;
kept hidden in folds of frayed language,
worn, patched liturgy.
God’s favour, infinite grace, dispersed in drips and drab.
Inaccessible supply points;
Miniscule amounts – sufficient for moments
... never a lifetime
... never enough.
Birthrights stolen and vendored back as new goods
in pottage crusted packaging;
impoverishing even more the already disinherited.
Stateless refugees frantically trekking from one citizenship seller to another;
their rightful, royal lineage ragged and unremembered;
unaware that their documentation is already well ordered
and eternally complete.
Imagine cascades of grace:
Flooding with reckless abandonment;
Sparkling spray clouds soaking all and sundry;
Pulverizing be-stoned and fraudulent boundary cairns;
Gushing and sweeping unused and unneeded into unmapped cracks and corners;
Pooled verdant and living in every reach and bend.
Imagine pounding waves and Fundy tides of favour
sweeping away mouldered forts of fanaticism,
freeing the shores forever
to unlimited access, unfettered supply.
Imagine no need for crudded containers,
no quack practitioners leaching life blood;
no marketable value to be exploited.
Imagine Grace.
Infinite.
Free.
And Mary found favour with God. (Luke 1.30)
December 2010
Santa Cruz de Yojoa
The peace of Christmas be with you always,
bb
About Me
- Bryan
- The Honduran Education Project is a three year pilot project which will enable >45% of all Honduran students who are unable to continue schooling beyond Grade 6 to access, through Computer Assisted Learning, Grades 7-9. Concentrating primarily on rural students, where further education is even more of an impossibility, this project will seek to allow students of all ages to complete Grade 9. During their studies, students will also acquire basic computer skills and will participate in small project in the fields of health, nutrition or integrated agriculture. The project will be centered around Santa Cruz de Yojoa. In spare time, I will work with Integrated Agriculture projects and experiments that have already been started in the area.
1 comment:
Brian, I think I saw a query of yours on my google feed this week. Did you pose a question regarding the availability of electric tampers for your project? If so, let me say I'm not aware of such a device, they are typically pneumatic and require a large compressor to run.
If you have an abundance of strong, under-employed individuals in your community, you can get great results hand-ramming with wooden or metal poles.
If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Best of luck and Happy New Year.
Kathy
Rammed Earth is for Everyone
http://rammedearth.blogspot.com/
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