INCLUSION COMMUNITY’S MODERN MAGNIFICAT
written together on December 15, 2019
Our souls, spirits, minds, and bodies amplify the goodness of God;
we dance in the mystery of the Divine.
Our souls join with the Spirit to grow roots from within,
for we are all in this together.
The Emmanuel, God-With-Us,
has called us beloved and shown us our worth.
At the margins
of society and our very beings,
God, Love-Enfleshed, meets us.
God brings to the disheartened the faith, hope, and love to the next step on the pilgrim road.
To the exploited, God has restored agency over their own bodies and lives.
God has freed everyone from the perspective of seeing other beings and the earth as objects to use rather than subjects to relate to.
He has freed the oppressed.
She has reminded the elderly of the wisdom of the child.
While the powerful quake in fear
fear of change,
fear of losing their grip on power,
fear of a mocking tweet,
fear of losing their position of privilege and wealth
a babe
a group of students form Parkland
a Swedish teenage girl with autism
young people who risked everything to give their children a better life
has been sent to restructure the values and order in a broken world.
We are all in this together, and the youth will lead us.
God’s love remains boundless and borderless,
extending to the LGBTQIA community,
black and brown bodies,
immigrants and refugees,
to all creatures and creation alike.
God will open the hearts of the wealthy for them to share the bounty of their table with the hungry.
God will lead the feet of the powerful in the steps of the lowly,
and give voice to those who must not be silenced.
Come! Our community is called to lift all others up in support and love.
We do not cast judgment on others but seek to understand with open hearts!
With humility, our souls open to the movement of the sacred.
Come, we are in this together!
Come, we are called
to strive for a more empathetic and just world,
To educate and feed the impoverished.
Come, we are all in this together,
and the youth will lead us!