Hello Faith House Friends,
We started with much dreaming, many, many conversations, and meticulous planning. No house, however, can be built on blueprints alone. We are in the middle of hands-on work; brick by brick, one week at a time, one caring act at a time, one friendship at a time. The integral part of our house construction project is securing financial resources. To learn about our House Warming campaign and to show us some love click HERE.
In the midst of this work, however, the vision must never slip away from our hearts or fade from our horizon. I write poems to help me personally stay the course. I hope you enjoy this one.
THE FUTURE OF OUR BEGINNING
I came from the same womb you came from.
Hope, like fluid, was shared and not my own.
Same food, same air, same love, same
warm caress of the future unknown.
I came from the same womb you came from.
With our birth, greed was born, and then blood drawn.
God's water broke and I slid out with you
from a nucleus of love into a nuclear dawn.
Now our hands and legs are intertwined again.
If you push there, something here will have to give--
whatever you do now matters again--
if you bless there, something here will live.
Please search your story and find me there.
Doubt, break the rules, touch the source,
touch the bottom of your well and rediscover
God who does not favor you and yours.
I came from the same womb you came from.
And now I stand on my, and you stand on your tower.
Let us walk down,
to the beginning, when it was Us and Our.
Thank you for reading, loving, dreaming, supporting! Samir Selmanovic, Faith House Manhattan
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