TRUE FREEDOM IS FREEDOM IN RELATIONSHIP, NOT FREEDOM FROM RELATIONSHIP. THIS IS A KEY ASPECT OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF HUMAN FREEDOM.

Drawn by the cords of kindness, I bind myself today
To be tied and tethered to the tender care
Of the one who declares me free

To be fastened to you is freedom God
To be anchored is emancipation
Held hard to a heart that hammers for me
Hemmed in by the pulse of your passion
This is the recipe for authentic liberty
To relinquish my rights, and find intimacy

By choice I lay down my licence to choose,
Resolving to use
The sacred instruments of privilege and power
To take pleasure in the preference of others

Ceding self-obsession to sow seeds of celebration
I will seek out the meek, I will bless the oppressed.
I will find and free the dispossessed.
I will tell the inheritors that all this will be theirs.
White; black; slave; free; employer and employee
Young and old; sick and well; parent, child; male, female
I will seek in differences not enmity
But energy for love

Through the bars of our cages we see you God:
An eagle in flight, defining freedom
The ground beneath our feet is groaning
Crying out for liberation
Yet louder still we hear your voice
Singing out the names of slaves unchained

Drawn by the cords of kindness, I bind myself today
To be tied and tethered to the tender care
Of the one who declares me free