Facebook Publication Date: 7/4/2018 21:07
I am not the same woman I was 24 hours ago.
So Lace on Race cannot be either.
We have been together for 5 months. It is both a millisecond, and a lifetime.
We are together to share community, to learn how to do this work, internal and external with intention and resilience and faithfulness.
For some of you, this has been an easy resting place, a place to get your helping of activism and be on your way.
No more.
No more spectators at the dress rehearsal. No more rehearsal. This is go time.
The last time I asked what you all were doing there were 30 answers, most from the ‘usual suspects’.
This time, no. I want more. I want you to really sit with the question I pose below. No platitudes, no likes hearts with no responses.
By now, we should be ready to put our phones back in our pockets and close our laptops. By now, we should be warmed up enough to suit up and show up.
How will you live your convictions going forward?
Last time we got 30 responses out of 3000 followers/likers. We can easily double that. Usual suspects, chime in, yes–but I am not counting your number in the 60. I want new voices, new ideas, new convictions, new praxis.
It’s go time.
Edited to add my reflections from my personal page; they did not carry over here.
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This has me in deep reflection.
Am I willing to risk my home, my job, my social standing, my freedom for the sake of all that I say I believe in?
Today, I have closed my eyes and said a virtual good bye to all of these things.
Make no mistake. I am not looking to lose them. But I am choosing to lose my clench.
When it all comes down, just who am I, really? Who am I ready *and willing* to be now and to grow into?
This is becoming a season of non attachment and of letting go of the self I have carefully constructed to become not only who I have planned and worked to be, but who I will consciously and faithfully be; who those I stand with need me to be.
No more dress rehearsal.
I need to do more than admire and share. I need to emulate and do. I need to be creative and curious and relentless.
And it will work on two tracks; internal work and external praxis. One does not receive primacy before the other. They need to be self reinforcing disciplines that will carry me through for the long haul.
I will look the same on the outside. But after today, I am not the same woman. How can I be?
What is your Statue of Liberty? What are you willing to climb away from so you can climb still higher?
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