We need a few weeds

What would the world be, once bereft

Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,

O let them be left, wildness and wet;

Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

― Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems

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in the place of power (Washington DC)

everything is ordered and cool

stately buildings and marble halls

tidy people in their power clothes

groomed and proper

so careful

so rigid

so unable to create change

forget the orderly one’s

what we really need are a few weeds

wet and wild

we need a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King

we need a Bonhoeffer,

a Robert Kennedy, a Dali Lama, a Thich Nhat Hanh

a Nelson Mandela

we need people (and to be people)

 who are open to the

disturbing influence of the Sacred

who are willing to be watered by Spirit

and fed by Sacred Presence

who are willing to grow wildly, uncontrolled

who are willing to give extravagantly

and love wildly

and be

the

change