Lenten Writing Prompt #12
As Christian writers, do we have a responsibility to tackle contemporary issues about injustice in our work? Can our voices make a difference? Watch this 4:22 minute TED talk with Clint Smith, a poet, teacher, and doctorate candidate at Harvard. Then, write a piece here about injustice. Let his spoken word piece in the link below inspire your voice as well.
http://www.ted.com/talks/clint_smith_the_danger_of_silence#t-147642
For more information about Clint, check out his website at www.clintsmithiii.com
Simple Questions
ReplyDeleteNo one would have guessed
that she was the one.
She was too quiet
too nice
too gentle.
But she was the one who asked the question,
who drew up the courage
who found the words
who willingly said to her neighbor
when everyone else wondered
but no one else was willing.
“I need to ask, are you safe?”
It was a simple question
but it went right to the issue.
Her neighbor paused
and cried
and finally said “Not now.”
And she went back inside the house.
But the spell was broken
and the truth was out.
Someone knew and she knew they knew.
In the weeks to come
she would find her way to the courageous one
more than once.
Change would not come without resistance
and pain and intimidation
if it would come at all.
But because of her neighbor’s simple question
she would eventually
find her way
to safety.
Powerful and brave question. And resolution is never simple.
ReplyDeleteSo, Sow
ReplyDeleteWe are the storytellers and prophets who read, listen, carry and sow the heirloom seeds of awareness and intention for positive harvests.
From our store of observations, investigations, and experiences, we are called to tell and help vanquish ignorance and indifference.
Yes, there are others in the fields loudly declaring opinions, but we should not be deterred from revealing our new discoveries, or reiteration of the proven facts.
Stories of humanity-- tragic, uplifting, inspiring, motivating and unsettling-- with a twist of the wrist fall on good soil, survive and flourish. Is not the existence of The Bible proof?
One word, one sentence, one paragraph, one verse, one song, might change the whole crop’s flavor.
Plant it on us!