Day 2 - "commitment" by enfleshed https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl enfleshed - poetry through lent en-us 2021-02-15 21:54:10 UTC 2023-01-25 16:41:33 UTC hello@padlet.com How to: enflesehd https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1204965224 Push the little pink button in the bottom right hand corner to post your poem!]]> 2021-02-15 22:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1204965224 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1214927356 Show up
Show up
Show up

CM]]> 2021-02-18 12:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1214927356 Threats to Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215005101 Threatened by distraction, consumerism, instant gratification. Also by isolation, individualism, and fatalism. And by the amygdala’s obsession with safety- which tricks me into thinking taking a stand, dedicating myself to the cause- would threaten my own survival. It ignores the fact that human cooperation, solidarity, has sustained the ancestors for millennia.]]> 2021-02-18 12:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215005101 To my students: jmaidrand https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215066873 You may never know of my deep-tethered commitment to you/
Perhaps, to you, I am merely the one who holds your GPAs in my hands/
But to me, you hold the power to change our worlds; you are on the cusp of liberation.]]> 2021-02-18 13:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215066873 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215078833 My covenant with God
Is puny compared to
God’s Covenant with me.  ]]> 2021-02-18 13:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215078833 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215101450 I hold out my hand
wanting to commit to needing you
let the promise unfold.
HilaryC]]> 2021-02-18 13:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215101450 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215209661 To love, only
And Life
Everything else is changing.
-Erin DB]]> 2021-02-18 13:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215209661 elemental dedications https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215228960 our lives know healing:
dreams, poems, magic, love, song.
(ash, soil, tulsi, salt)

-akb]]> 2021-02-18 13:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215228960 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215308120 Redwood trees have surprisingly shallow roots.
But they reach wide, 100ft.
Fusing with others, they hold steady.

M]]> 2021-02-18 14:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215308120 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215343182 Uphill is the road 
committed is the step
that follows the previous stride.]]> 2021-02-18 14:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215343182 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215427480 Return again and agian
to the center of your desire. As if a hand on your face is gently turning your gaze, saying: look... here.
- Molly B]]> 2021-02-18 14:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215427480 Committed https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215519540 As how a tear can only roll,
a bud struggles up for sunlight. committed
in the same way that a star shines.]]> 2021-02-18 14:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215519540 Reframe https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215585499 I struggle to remember that
To commit to myself is holy work, too:
My wellness and my wholeness matter. 

SW-T]]> 2021-02-18 15:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215585499 Love https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215602956 I choose love, by which I mean
return again and again and again to 
creating healing, compassion, support

]]> 2021-02-18 15:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215602956 'Tis Better to Give https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215614989 To give and give and
give-effortless practice this.
Given to-awkward.
~T]]> 2021-02-18 15:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215614989 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215623798 Commitments continue to grow today - 
From filling the birdfeeders in the snow, to baking potatoes, making bacon, doing laundry, putting together twice-baked potatoes, checking on loved ones, listening, making birthday preparations, shoveling so you can get home, making dinner, and even committing ten minutes to myself to write a poem.
All done with love. ]]> 2021-02-18 15:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215623798 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215630449 Am I committed
To what is real and enduring
Or to what is fleeting and illusory?]]> 2021-02-18 15:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215630449 Commitments https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215635871  I want to be committed to justice and peace, to love and grace and community. 
I worry that a review would suggest I’m committed to facebook and getting good grades and people liking me. 
How do I commit to my commitments? 

-Beth

]]> 2021-02-18 15:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215635871 I show up. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215710158 those who came before me
fought
tooth and nail; those I come before
deserve better
than the supremacy that
infects us
all
I show up.]]> 2021-02-18 15:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215710158 where https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215749791 seek - search for the light. 
where flourishing of abundant life is - there, my commitment lives.]]> 2021-02-18 15:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215749791 forgetting on day 2 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215793524 already forgot/
i made at commitment again/
so here i am now

- kjm ]]> 2021-02-18 15:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215793524 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215994648 It's recovery.
A purposeful commitment.
One day at a time.

]]> 2021-02-18 16:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1215994648 Not perfection https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216017068 striving for perfection is not a commitment.
opening myself to be comfortable in chaos, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
detaching myself from the binaries keeping me from knowing all of god. ]]> 2021-02-18 16:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216017068 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216201924 Promises made, promises kept
Not for the sake of the promise,
but for love]]> 2021-02-18 17:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216201924 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216211625 Everlasting commitment to my salvation - and yours.
Commitment by the Creator of this vast universe.
Commitment through the sacrifice of His most precious Son. Thoroughly and lovingly committed to me - and to you.

]]> 2021-02-18 17:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216211625 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216364754 Not my commitment, 
But our co-mission to heal
And reveal God’s love

WDRplus]]> 2021-02-18 18:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216364754 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216487606 Still here: with every reason to run,
I remain here, still, choosing
in each motionless second to stay. ]]> 2021-02-18 18:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216487606 Commitment maggiestang95 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216571365 Gentleness, I commit to you. 
Adaptability, I commit to you.
Holy feeling, I commit to you. 
 ]]> 2021-02-18 18:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216571365 Devote https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216597284 Love is commitment 
A promise to care, always 
To keep trying on]]> 2021-02-18 18:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216597284 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216770760 Committed to your call. Immersed in your beautiful space. Committed to being free.]]> 2021-02-18 19:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216770760 baptismal vows https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216771589 do you take each life
intertwined with yours
to have and to hold?]]> 2021-02-18 19:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216771589 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216804268 New bulbs wriggle up
committed come ice or rain
desperate for the light]]> 2021-02-18 19:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216804268 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216999511 To the fight,
To the becoming and the not yet,
To bringing life to those spaces where the world demands death

]]> 2021-02-18 20:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1216999511 Energized Frozen in my mistake, my discouragement; then Trying again https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217053564 2021-02-18 20:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217053564 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217073540 Are you mad? You should be committed!
Fire in the head, fire in the heart, fire in the belly, fire in the blood...
Calling or compulsion? I am Yours, O One!
]]> 2021-02-18 21:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217073540 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217285837 About to go to bed, I berate myself for my lack of commitment to writing a poem a day for lent. Tomorrow there will be another chance to recommit. ]]> 2021-02-18 22:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217285837 Joining Curiosity https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217301686 Commit to your dreams,
dear friends—“Perseverance
is alive on Mars!”]]> 2021-02-18 22:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217301686 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217446827 What am I committed to? I’m not sure.
I wake up every morning with weight on my back 
But I need to keep going, I carry it onward for now until I can find rest 
]]> 2021-02-19 00:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217446827 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217488502 is about the long haul, being present 
over time…it’s ok to ebb and flow
as long as the flow is when the other, the issue, the moment needs you]]> 2021-02-19 00:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217488502 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217509018 sitting at
a bed holding
the silence open]]> 2021-02-19 00:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217509018 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217523875 Since the beginning
It has only been us
My growth is deeply connected to yours
]]> 2021-02-19 00:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217523875 Yes. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217620499 would i have said yes,
if i knew the valleys 
waiting for us on the journey? Yes.]]> 2021-02-19 01:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217620499 But to whom? https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217669066 Is it that I suck at commitment—-to people or pathways or plans?
Or is it that I am so fiercely committed to the clarion beacon singing from the deep-rooted me-ness 
That what some may see as commitment, to me, feels like settling?
]]> 2021-02-19 02:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217669066 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217683844 Indigenous peoples keep faith with the land
Through centuries of being forced to live in the attics of their own homes
Hear them chanting softly; invite them down to breakfast
]]> 2021-02-19 02:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217683844 You show up, post-argument, in sickness, for celebration again, and yet again We are building something https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217685243 2021-02-19 02:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217685243 Bound https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217707876
Bound to each other for eternity, two mourning doves make their way in the snow. 
One scratches the ground, the other follows and feeds
Until they change direction and no one leaves the bird feeder hungry. ]]> 2021-02-19 03:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217707876 Hold Fast https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217713443 What kind of world might we bring into being if we each held fast to one another?

Linked and encircled, bound together.

What dreams might we deliver 
if only we imagined
them together, 
tightly tethered.

-SJM]]> 2021-02-19 03:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217713443 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217714863 A purpose. A calling. A strength. A gift.
Without relationship,without love becomes 
An illness.  A prison. A chain]]> 2021-02-19 03:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217714863 eleison https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217755961 spirit, 
help keep our distracted hearts committed to justice 
that we might all have the chance to flourish
]]> 2021-02-19 03:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217755961 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217812245 I will. 
Your will.
I will.]]> 2021-02-19 04:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217812245 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217854303 2021-02-19 05:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217854303 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217855931 looms. How can I keep

A commitment when I can barely keep

Myself?]]> 2021-02-19 05:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1217855931 Commitment It’s a struggle. The tug of love and loyalties.The yearning to dwell alone. To be a hermit,Yet not without the comfort of company. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1218215704 2021-02-19 09:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1218215704 COMMITMENT https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1218708098 Bound, intertwined, entrenched, one.
For better, for worse
For always, I am there.
]]> 2021-02-19 13:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1218708098 Commitment https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1218835160 Honor commitments 
Backsliding moments occur 
Each day, start anew]]> 2021-02-19 13:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/p92nv9mrih7ymryl/wish/1218835160