Welcome to this conversation

Episode 1 (June 7, 2020): What do you hear now? Fabric is turning to hear. First to hear and keep center the voice of George Floyd saying, “I can’t breathe,” and giving terrible voice yet again to the experience of being black in the United States. We turn to hear, again the voice both deep inside and beyond us that calls us to do justice, love kindness, and limp humbly with our God. We turn to hear, again our own imperfect wrestling with our role as an antiracist community and as individuals. In this Episode, Melissa Lock shares various voices to help us explore our individual and communal response.

Key takeaways

We each come to this from many different places. There is no one answer to how to respond right now. Our response to George Floyd's killing (not to mention the pandemic) is about much more (and less, in a way) than finding the right answer to a question, the right paradigm, model or politics.

Our response needs to be both a rhythm and a listening.

A rhythm: A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement in the world. Inside - out then back again. Pause, act, learn, repeat.

A listening: to others, ourselves and that third strand we call God.

Our responding won’t end and then we go back to normal. We will learn, practice and repeat like a dance or the seasons or the scientific process.

What do you hear? What do you hear now? How about now? Keep listening. Keep moving to the deeper music of the Fabric. We’ll do it together.

Homework practice: Write about how you have experienced this rhythm this week: pause, act, learn, repeat. Listen to someone else’s story about their experience of it. Share yours.