Back from Sabbatical-Rev. Geoff’s Mission Statement
Dear Friends,
I have returned from my six month sabbatical on July 1. I am excited to get back on a writing schedule. I have always dreamt of this blog being devotional with poetry, prayers, meditations and affirmations. As I begin my ministry anew I have been thinking of my mission and how I can make it happen this year. The following is my mission statement with an affirmation/prayer on power. I invite you to reflect on your own life’s mission and sense of power. Do you claim it or give it away? I am begininng to see my power as a sacred intention to “be the change I want to see.”
Blessings,
Geoff
My mission is to bring the love of God into the hearts, minds and souls of the people I love and minister to.
I bring this love alive in my life by owning the power Spirit gave me at the moment of my birth— the power of transformation.
I claim my power from Spirit, the co-creative force that energizes my life and which has called me to serve.
I use my power so Spirit will grow strong by— doing justice, bringing healing wherever it is needed, and gathering people together into the blessings of God’s diversity.
Today I open myself up and set free the power within me.
I no longer fear the dark—for the light of love guides me on my way.
Today I will see God in a hundred different faces and seek audience with each and every one.
My soul with find communion with beauty in all its many forms.
Today, I will be present to all of life—even the dirty and difficult, the loud and obnoxious.
They too have something to teach me.
If difficult emotions well up within me I will take note of their origin and any actions they compel me to do.
And then—not a moment longer, I will let them go and bid them farewell as they fade into the background, returning to the void from whence they came.
Today, I will use my power to keep my spiritual center to uphold the wholeness of life, and to stay true to myself when the world conspires to overwhelm me with more than I can handle.
I will stand strong and firm on life-affirming values and guiding principles.
And I will take to task those that act out of selfish need (including myself) without considering the common good.
I will not put others down to lift myself up.
I will stay true to Wisdom’s voice guiding me on how best to Love—this Life—these people—and this wild and wonderful world.
Spirit, I beseech you to be with me every moment until my final breath, in all my comings and goings, highs and lows.
Let everything that comes into my life bring me into your Grace.
So Be It.
Blessed Be
Amen
Shalom
Salaam