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Seeking Salvation

Prayers, sometimes lightly lyrical, slyly satirical, self-conscious, ego- and anthro-chosen folk transcendently yet personally individually woke, and sometimes full embodied passions in Praise Him! shout out Echo in- voking round resonance with all Earth's eternal regenerating lively lovely resilience. Prayers express "I feel" so provoke "I want, even actively need" Trust Statements Or, prayers are LeftBrain dominant performances of True v False Health v Pathology internal v external enlightening transcendent thoughts v empowering emotional support, Reason v Passion Stories. "Lordy, Lordy I sure do hope for active good Sunday dope that Donald Trump will someday, although probably not this day, enjoy a long and healthy and unusually quiet, cruelly serene, claustrophobically private retirement into suffering and mental anguish over all his many sociopathological sins against natural and spiritual, physical and mental, embodied and mindful health care giving by receiving copassionate co-invested communion." In this prayer, what does grandmother Eartha feel? Lack of sufficient hope for robust and healthy redemption, maybe sadness about humanity's great fall into partisan disunion, probably chronic climate anxiety, in which She betrays and is betrayed by fear of RightWing angry AnthroSupremacy. Meditations on red sky climate warnings nonverbally remind MeSheWe together upvote nonviolent polypaths leading to polyphonic lyrical and PraiseHim! for what we all, with thriving rich resilient souls, wish for An unusually quiet, serene, private retiring redemption From Old Testament PatriCapitalist Nothern White epic histories of monotheistic colonization We nearly all AnthroSupremely invoke deep EarthTribal fears of our own BusinessAsUsual corporate globally ecosystemic nationalistic white cracker violent chauvinistic discommunications And we are all dearly angry about lack of sufficiently empowering retirement funds and enlightening co-redemptive facts of a sacred salvation economy, Spiraling polynomially spacious circles of polyphonic therapeutic prayers intoned entombed beyond eternal silence peacefully polypathic Revoking oppressive "I feel lyrical satirical" preferences for I need more than mere divine performances to embrace our MeWe deep Nature/Spirit flow ing widely polypathic "Praise Him/Her, We Yang/Yintegral Two!" Wu-wei extending conscious polyculturing healthy conscience continuing compassion's discontinuous EarthPeace Prayer.

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