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Well
Scripts
ON
COMMUNITY | WOMAN STORY
Ingredients
for Maintaining a Community
(Leecy Wise)
Honesty
Speak
honestly to one another. Be clear about you intent and
expectations. Reveal feelings and thoughts associated with any
issue and define the difference (between thoughts and feelings).
Be consistent in your
speech as it reflects you.
Responsibility
Be clear about your responsibility in any decision. Assume your
responsibility and define what authority you need to carry it
out. Let each one define her responsibility when joint projects
are undertaken. Speak it and remember it. Each one plays a
singular role in a community. Honor your role and that of
others. When you get involved, you become responsible. Trust
that each will honor her own role.
Openness
Remain
open and flexible. Communicate fears, hopes and accomplishments
as they occur. Council meetings have a purpose: they keep people
together with their intent at the center. Always keep Love at
the center so that you become open to others and feel the
courage to express yourself. In Love there is no fear.
Respect
Any
joint project requires the talents and creativity of many.
Respect what you and each other person brings to the community.
Honor one another in words, feelings and deeds (kind speech;
diligent listening; acts of kindness). Honor the Love that keeps
you together.
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A
community grows and becomes strong as it nurtures itself in
Love. Love one another as Creator loves each of you. You are
created and maintained and gently held in Love. Hold one another
dear and keep each other safe and protected from the vengeance
of the world. KNOW the truth that Love is the meaning of Life.
As you live, know in each breath that you are not alone. You are
in Love. And Love is real.
Short
Story, Woman Style
(Leecy
Wise)
First
Chapter
It is told that once there was Woman, and her nature prevailed
on Earth, for she was Earth herself.
For
every breath, a seed was born and nurtured in her soil.
Her
waters flowed and the rains brushed the soil that gave each seed
its home.
And
it was good.
And
so it is, still.
Let
those who can see it, see and find comfort on the Earth.
A
Woman’s Place (Let’s Put Her in Her Place!)
A
woman’s place is one without dissention and obligation. A
woman’s place is like a womb – soft, mysterious, warm.
A
woman’s place is in her heart and among other women in their
hearts.
A
woman’s place is a place of joy that surpasses understanding.
A
woman’s place is experienced, not understood and explained.
In a woman’s place, children are free and safe to explore.
In
a woman’s place, acts reflect the heart of each, and all gets
done
Where
is Woman?
A
woman is immovable; yet she goes everywhere. (Her faith cannot
be measured or bought.)
Her
home is not confined to tents and buildings. She is everywhere
and at home there.
If
man is to find a woman, let it be through his heart, for he will
always find her there.
If
grief finds a woman, it is to be embraced and held until it is
part of her and no longer alone.
Last
Chapter
Love
knows Woman as she knows herself. As Love knows the Earth, so is
Woman embraced and dissolved in it, in total union.
Love
is as Woman upon the Earth.
And
it is good.
©
OASIS Friends, 2002
Permission
granted to use the passages on this page as long as the source
is included.
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