# What If? –

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**Category:** Commons\
**Tags:** poetry\
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/what-if/805 "2016-11-10T14:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![madrush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/madrush/32/6452_2.png) [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/what-if/805/10 "2016-12-15T20:32:56Z")

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Thank you for the beautiful poems/prayers, @DiShearer. It’s wonderful to hear that you and @grannyjan might be getting together in person. Please share a picture if you do!

These words especially spoke to me, and feel related to the conversation we had on “[Chaos, Crisis, and Creativity](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/chaos-crisis-and-creativity-a-live-hangout-with-the-editors-of-metapsychosis/594)” a few months ago. However, the poem as a whole evokes not only the Christian mystics, but also Rabindranath Tagore, Ramkrishna, and others. I could use some of this energy right now. Thank you for sharing!

> [@DiShearer](#):
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> We want to step into the slip-stream of blessed unrest.  
> We want to experience divine dissatisfaction.  
> We want to wake up and grow up.
> 
> The sacred unfolding of Spirit in space and time  
> … is your divine strategy for making a world,  
> for making a community,  
> for bringing kinship and peace.
> 
> So let ‘balanced turbulence’ be our constant dwelling-place,  
> Not rushing ahead in chaotic mismanagement,  
> Nor pulling back in reluctant resistance.
> 
> May your energy re-vitalise us!  
> May your compassion re-energise us!  
> May your love surround and indwell us!
> 
> So that we may be the presence of the sacred story unfolding in space and time!  
> So that having squandered our inheritance …  
> … we may be the prodigal returning home to serve!  
> So that we may know we are kin to all that is!
> 
> May we be alive to new imaginings of your world!  
> May we be ready to make a creative difference!  
> In the name of the Cosmic Christ! Amen!

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