Anticipation...

Hello my wonderful band of misfits, mystics, and masterpieces!
Tonight we convene the first meeting of our little group.  I'm so very excited!
I have long been a prayer warrior and would like to just speak some words over our first meeting and the relationships that will form.  Words, whether spoken in prayer or simply spoken have power to shape and create reality, so please indulge this expression of mine...  I'm nervous and deeply moved at the possibility of a long-awaited dream becoming a reality tonight.
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Abba-God, you are so gracious and good!  I have waited a long time to bring together a group of people like myself for the purpose of growing, living, loving and sharing.  I'm moved to joyful tears at the thought that the impossible might be possible tonight.

God, you mean so many different things to each of us in this new, small, precious family!  To some of us you are Father, Daddy... to others you are an idea, a concept... to others, a source of energy and power... and to others, you are simply the epitome of possibility and all things good in the world.  I cannot even begin to describe the beauty and freedom there is in that idea.

Abba, I pray that you guide our conversation tonight.  I pray that you give me words and wisdom to guide our group together in love and light.  Let compassion, grace, honesty, and peace be our centerpiece.  Let freedom be our goal and highest ideal, second only to unconditional love.

Bring some life and healing to our town, and to our campus, through this meeting of hearts and minds tonight, Abba.  I know you hold all things in your hands.  I know also that you've given each of us a unique and beautiful calling to live, as well as we are able, in this life and in whatever follows.

In all of your forms and formlessness, be in our midst tonight as we talk and share and live and love together this evening.  I ask for positive, strong, trusting connections.  I ask for grace, patience, laughter, and vulnerability.  I ask for safety and protection around and over our group and over each individual there.

I feel beyond honored to have been entrusted with such an inspired idea to help get this little community going.  I hope and pray that we can honor you in our speech and in the way we love each other and others. I ask for shared leadership and I pray that a hierarchy is never necessary among us.  Give us each the courage to speak our minds and share our hearts and to do so respectfully and with kindness and love at the forefront of our consciousness.

In love and trust,
Amen
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My dear friends, I promise that not every post will be as gushy as this.  But you have to understand how much grief, time, dreaming, prayer, thought, and passion has been invested in this for me.  I have held this dream in my back pocket since I was young and to see it happening in front of me is one of the most powerfully moving experiences I can imagine.  So, thank-you for bearing with my overly emotional gushing.

Please know that I see great things happening for this, our group, our family.

Here's to revolutionary love and to a new family!

Blessings dear friends,
Glorious Mess