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Holy Spirit Power
Ignites the person to be
All she’s meant to be

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Power doesn't need
to be wielded with hatred.
Sometimes it's quiet.

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to be able
to live to thrive
to dream

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The power inside
I never knew I had
Is ready to rise

CM

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I don't need power, I am power.

I don't show off my power, just to be it.

It's a pretty, comfortable coat.

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Love is power:    As it whispers, see/
Hate cringe and cower.
dm

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Love may make the world go round
But power is what drives a lot of people
Whether acknowledged or not

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the power of love is the only one that matters really matters in the BIG picture and we all have that power

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What if power was in the giving, rather than the taking? What if power accrued dissipated and redistributed, shifting to those without, to those with less? What if power receded, to make room for love? What world might we bring into being?
-SJM

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Power is defined simply the ability to do or act

Why did I think it was more complicated by that?

What other sermons are hiding in the dictionary?

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To the ant, I’m giant.
To the lion, I’m an ant.
How can both be true?

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Power?

Helplessness entrained early enough

Renders it impotent.

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Power made perfect
In weakness brings God glory
Working in us now

WDRplus

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We create chosen families, abundant in love.
We fight for the kids, miracles of survival.
We declare detested bodies holy.

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Someone else said “gravitas” about you    I said “power”        You laughed and laughed

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Someone else said “gravitas” about you    I said “power”        You laughed and laughed

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power to humiliate
power to intimidate
power to crush
OR
power to repudiate
power to resuscitate
power to bless -
help me to choose.

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Power over, for, with, to - what? who?
Is this seductive temptation,
or the power of Christ in you?

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Nerdy, tongue-tied girl
I feel powerless alone
Together we rise

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When held by too few, power corrupts
When shared with the many, power enlivens
Can we imagine
A latticework of empowerment, growing flowers of hope?

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When I remember it is for freedom/
I am set free/
Then human politics/
And human judgement/
Lose their sting/
And Gods grace/
Becomes the power/
By which I live

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In the power of play, creative and joyful

In the power of community, circle-open-wide

In the power of one voice raised against the odds

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I align myself with the ceaseless movements of nature.

Tides rising and falling; earth turning into darkness, into light.

Waters flowing beneath the surface, seedlings rising toward the sun, chickadee singing.

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Old white men
Hold on to power
Relinquish accountability

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You DO NOT have the power to share my identity with nosy strangers

My lived experience is stronger than you know

One day soon I will use my strength for good, to help those who need me

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Showing up
Saying yes
Saying no

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I feel so powerless, knowing power as only domination and being dominated,
How do I disconnect power from control over and under?
There is a well within, a sustaining source, overflowing with expansion, creativity, imagination, and hope.
Let us find a way to access and release this, our power,
in a life giving way,
together.

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No more leaking out slowly like water through a hole in a dam, trying to be good.
Rather, be Wild and Uncontained- flow loose and free.
And give it all away like that.

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What a word, so value-laden in our contexts. 
Do we ever understand power
unless we understand that it only truly exists in its giving away? 

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struggle
ful
less

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spit and brown paper
scourge dusty tracks of power
let your light shine through

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What seems to be so far in the distance is right upon my fingertips

If only courage could meet me the way fear has

I could grab it, if only for a moment, swallow it whole and never let it go

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power is the backbone of epistemologies, definitions, norms--structures through which our society exists

RESIST

beats the pulse of creativity, of flourishing, of liberation

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Jesus Christ shows us what it is to live with power under
rather than power over.

This is why I call God “he”

I ask men to weep and love as He does.

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Out of the window, I watch;
the wind tosses bare branches beginning to bud;
the exultant power of seasons changing.
HilaryC

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Tug of War

From my perch of authority,
I joked
that he shouldn't talk about
cleaning some theoretical cat's litterbox
until he had first mastered cleaning
his own private bathroom.
He became defensive,
then aggressive.
This is how power struggles go
with our spoiled, traumatized,powerful, powerless,beautiful,
unforsaken children.

--Mark Nielsen

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Like a rushing wind power comes
Hurricaned Spirit
of Wisdom
Loose truth and justice