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HARVESTFORCE 2021 • 2
BORN INTO LIGHT ~ a poem by Flourish ~
Who do we turn to when life becomes unbearable? When happiness is nothing but a hope whispered in the dead of yet another sleepless night. When the person who promised to love us becomes the very reason we lose our faith. When illness strips us of every dream we’ve dared to dream. When our families remain only to remind us of the hurts we carry the losses we bury and the brokenness we try so hard to mend. When we live only so our children won’t need to face the darkness alone. With heads to the floor we weep until our bodies feel like nothing but the smoke of unanswered prayers. And then, one day on a day unlike the rest a window opens. And hope begins to make its way back into our fractured hearts.
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Our fellow women arrive with hearts open and hands raised for service. And we begin a beautiful exchange of time, talent and stories. Our hands formerly cusped in perpetual prayer now in service to craft something beautiful. Hope is the fabric of healing that we weave With every stitch we become stronger. Together, we dreamt of and built a community committed to all creeds, convictions colours, cultures and conditions. We work towards a vision of God’s eudaimonia United by our love for each other and our Creator. Building a world where ‘light in darkness’ is not just another idea; It’s who we are it’s what we’re made of it’s what we were born to do.
