Magnitude

Today I’ve been exploring on the internet, searching for a web site model that would work well for Praying for Our Prisons campaign.

I was drawn to the Knowing Field, a site about the work of Constellations, especially the work of Constellations in Prison settings (posted links on the Prison Potential blog)

The enormity of this campaign sends shutters through me at times, shutters of divine energy seeking release; shutters of overwhelm fogging my view. So in this abstract of an Interview with Albrecht Mahr I found his words opening: [We feel] “invited or tempted to be accountable for many, many things. There can be a certain grandiosity in attempts to change huge systems. ... What I have learned is that just helping clients see the complexity and say: "I am in a very complex field - that is how it is" without feeling the need to resolve it all, has a clarifying, even relieving effect. We need to support them to withdraw their attention and focus more on their specific area of influence, with modesty. This re-focusing has a calming effect.”

From my personal exploration of prayer energy, I sense a vastly expanded potential arising when prayer is released from a calm and humble heart, than an overburdened or entitled heart.

Another interview abstract with Jan Jacob Stam reflected upon large organizations as an integral aspect of our social and cultural lives today. “Organizations help keep society together, even given some of the attendant problems for us, so who am I to have an opinion about keeping society together? … The more I work with organizations, the more the love I feel for them grows. I have the same love for organizations as I do for nature. … “The scale, the power, the impact of it was awe-inspiring in a way.”

May we be inspired by the task that the prison system has taken on to keep our communities safe, to bring forth rehabilitation, to hold the fabric of our society together. The scale of this institution, this system that seeks to bring forth justice and change lives (break them or remake them) is awe-inspiring. May our hearts open in awe and release the awesome power of prayer to guide this vital institution’s way forward in the name of Love.

For the abstracts: http://www.theknowingfield.co.uk/journalextracts.php