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Dancing at Planned Parenthood

1/23/2017

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"We were claiming the sacredness of the space and the decisions that women and families make," says Katey Zeh of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the group that co-produced the first blessing ceremony with Planned Parenthood Metro-Washington. For more info about the clinic blessing, see Color Lines article by Miriam Perez. 

Below, see the poem I  wrote for the clinic blessing at Planned Parenthood:

I Dance (Guidance) -- (c) 2017
Show me the dance steps
my body used to know.

I lost my own rhythm
Drowned out by the clamor of over-righteous judgment,
Sounds of stigma and shame,
Feelings of loneliness, despair and hopelessness.

The strength of your laughter and tears,
  your prayers and uncompromising love
  let me know I am in a safe place
to learn and grow, heal and dance.

Some dancesteps are made more difficult
When I forget the rhythm of my own body.
   Show me.
Teach me how to dance with joy again.

Come to me, in me
Enrapture and empower me
   in rhythms of love.

Guide me back to my dance
Touch me in firm gentleness.

As I dance with you I remember my dance
Yes, my dance is grace-filled.

“Go girl, you are awesome,” ancestors cheer.
“You never dance alone, we are with you.”
They cheer again, “Proud of you, sweetie.”

As I reclaim my dance
I am proud of me.
Together, we cheer
And dance.

When I dance with you
I soar to the mountaintop – ah, Freedom.
And swim in the oceandeep – oh, Wholeness.

My dancesteps reveal
Sacred mysteries known by
   trees bursting forth from rocks
   and the joy of the sun kissing the moon.

As I dance my dance
     I experience Divine Wisdom and Light
    Peace in the storm
Life in death
     Joy in sorrow
 Hope in despair.

I dance in dignity and courage
Honoring my instinct, my own voice
Singing my songs
   of lamentation and liberation,
Telling my own stories
   of breakdowns and breakthroughs

I dance in my authentic awesomeness,
   in Power, in Spirit, in God.
1 Comment
Guido & Virginia Kettniss
2/1/2018 07:40:38 pm

Dear Cari,
I write to you with a heavy heart. As a Christian minister, one would expect you to love the Lord Jesus, and in living out that love, obey His Word the Bible. The Bible teaches that life begins at conception. Science has proven this - a baby in the mother's womb feels pain, reacts to the mother's emotional state, is a living person created by God, and to abort that living human being is according to God's Word 'murder'. How can you support murder as a minister of the living God? You stated in that so called blessing of the murder factory (abortion clinic)- "We give honor to these women who choose this space." Give honour to one who would seek to destroy the life that God has created? Give honour to those who actually butcher and murder a living human being?

I am reminded of Isaiah 5:20 where the prophet says: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” I am also reminded of 1 Kings 22:7-8: But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?” And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
You are the false prophet, simply compromising with the world, and giving them what they want to hear. You are encouraging the "death-culture" of the C21st. Jesus said in "Mark 9:42: "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea." What greater judgment will fall on those who don't just cause them to stumble, but to actually take their life!

The whole abortion system is a blot on society, and a cause of much grief and pain to our Lord. How you can be part of this, is beyond comprehension. A woman's body is not her own, just as a man's isn't. Our bodies belong to God, they are given to us a trust, and to be used for His glory. Women are entrusted to bring the life at conception to full birth, to nurture it both physically and spiritually - in the womb - and at and from birth. Anything else will incur God's judgment.

It is time to consider your standing before God. Have you truly repented of your sins? Have you truly placed yourself under the authority of His Word. Do you respond the Christ's love in giving His all on the Cross for you, by responding in loving and sacrificial obedience in serving our risen Lord.

Sincerely in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ.


Guido and Virginia
Brisbane Australia

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