movie...again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g63TWwtq0M

you can watch it big here! ...be sure to click on HQ (high quality)

:)

Movie! Watch!

Remember. versions 1 and 2

Remember.
Remember what it feels like to
be free,
to lie in the grass while the sun
kisses you, while the wind
caresses you. Knowing you are
created
alive
loved
blessed as you close your eyes, breathing
in all of this life and you
sneeze. Oh! How
human you are, little one. How
wonderfully human

Remember?
Remember what it feels like to
be human?
To curse and hurt and cry and rage
at this, betrayal, pain so deep that
you are lost. lost
lost
lost until you find the courage
to weep
lost until someone holds
you close, weeps with you, your
head on their should and
you know
freedom.

**above is the rewrite as i lost the original, which i just found so here is the first one:

Remember.
Remember what it feels like to
be free.
To lay in the grass while
the sun kisses you, while
the wind caresses you and you,
you know you are
alive
created
loved
blessed as you sneeze into the grass.
How human you are little one,
how
wonderfully human.

Remember.
Remember what if feels like to be human.
To rage and curse and cray
against your insignificance, against
a pain and betrayl so terrible
you are lost. lost.
lost.
lost until someone
calls your name out of
love. out of love calls you
back as you cry into their shoulder
and are freed

wild geese, carm, campo...home?

carm and me in the campo walking the looong walk home after one of the many easter week masses. over it is a poem by mary oliver, whom i love.

i don't know. coming home is hard. this picture and poem together say something i don't really have the words for

quilt of liberation

hello!

so this one is less of a blog and more of a request to each of you to take about 5 minutes to be part of my final project for my liberation theology project. The assignment is to in some (creative) way represent how we have been liberated during our time in El Salvador. For me, in so many ways my time here has been a time of Liberation. So many boxes have exploded: my faith, my view of myself have both expanded through my relationships while I have been here and with this expansion and liberation I have been able to be in relationship, in friendships in a more complete way. In particular one way I have been liberated has been how I value myself. I realized here that when I think of myself I often think of all my mistakes, all of the things I could have done better or differently first. I have been learning to see the good in myself... and through that, have been able to see that my thoughts and feelings have more value than I tend to give them, and so I am (learning!) to speak from myself, to see the good in me to value myself enough to then be able to share my uncomforts with others.

so in the end, this really has been a circle, that through my relationships I have been able to see, to value myself, more and so then to be able to be more fully in relationships with the people who have been walking this journey with me.

Each of you reading this has been walking this semester with me and so you too have been a part of the process for me ... though maybe you didn't know it until now! So I would like to invite you to be a part of my project. Here it is:

I am making a quilt of squares, one square for each person who has been part of my liberation. In EL Salvador, this means I give you a square and you get to draw or write your answer...for you my friends back to home, it means please respond to the following in a message or email and I will write (or draw if you tell me to!) on the square for you.

in the center will be: what do you love about yourself? what about you makes you the most you?

on one side will be: please write me a short message about what you love about me

on another side: i will write a short message about what I love about you (and tell you in a replying email so you can know what i put)

much thanks and more love!
christy