We Are The Engine - Pauli Murray pt 6

Row, Row, Row Your Boat – Excerpt 5:43

This video (5min 43sec)is an excerpt from the Mobile Homecoming Sunday Service Pauli Murray Birthday Edition in November 2021. Inspired by Saint Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, Sangodare shares about their entrepreneurial journey, especially the story of how they moved from fear to practice.

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 (full service featuring Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs)

This is my race, y'all. This is my lane. I have released the hype with the help of the Lorde and Pauli Murray and I am practicing bit by bit liberation economies.

Okay.

I'm learning. I'm rowing gently down the stream. Our scripture today. The sermons I engaged for the ceremony, the Pauli Murray sermons elevate the work we do in the physical environment and our social organization to be included in how we access divine destiny. Okay? they elevate the work we do in the physical environment and social organization to be included in the spiritual realm, divine destiny, which I'll say is ever present when we cannot allow the blocks of old stored to float away is already here. But there's a process we're allowing and this is allowing, as you know, we get to through practice.

And as Pauli Murray says in this sermon that I'm referencing, Praxis, a continuous action concurrent with reflection. Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Praxisis continuous action concurrent with reflection. And this rowing is a full is full of discovery. It's experimental. Hmm. Ya'll, it's experimental. Oh, if I could just preach all day, I would talk about how we can innovate our rowing by using an engine of a motor. Okay. Engines are devices used to convert some form of energy into mechanical motion. Oh, somebody pray with me. I would paint a picture ,if I had all day, of how if we row, row, row our boat. Row, row, row, our boat. We move toward our, 'life is but a dream vision'.

Yeah.

If we row our boat, we move toward life is but a dream our vision. divine destiny. Like Pauli talks about. Oh, if I had all day, I would talk about how we can be specific about our fuel, clean burning or pollutants, renewable or non renewable. Oh, if I had only I would wonder about the size of our fuel tank all day. I would wonder about the source of our fuel. All day, I would wonder and I would celebrate the model. The example of fuel expanding to drive the pistons all day. Drive the pistons pontificate on the efficiency of the pistons moving back and forth in the cylinder of our engine. All day, how do the piston rods turn the crankshaft turning reciprocating motion, back and forth, into rotary motion, round and round.

Oh, I would all day celebrate the example of Brother Engine and Mother Motor, where expanding fuel expansion leads to that divine shape. That divine form of the circle. Yes, I would. I would row, row, row for all to see and every round would get higher and higher every round, more and more of us would roll together. Yes, we would. Until we reach the other shore where vision and dream become the divine destiny realized. Oh if I had all day. If I had all day in my liberation economies, my shoulders standing work is to give myself, to exemplify, to facilitate this all day dream coming true. All day is a promise of the space we are creating. Oh, don't you want to have all day?

Yes!

Don't you want to have all day? Don't you want to have all night? Oh, we know we know, we know, we know. That Pauli Murray's work was social and political, and we know that economics are included in those fields. And sometimes it seems like economies are the engine that drives the world and our lives.

And what I want us to try on today is the possibility that the engine does not drive us. But that engine does not drive us, does not fuel us, does not take the necessary elements and provide the mechanical power to move us. But we we ourselves are the engine, the fuel, the motion, the piston, the cylinder, the shaft, the turning rod, the whole engine. We are. If we will just pick it up, it will just pick up that responsibility, that calling, that reality. We are the engine.

And with intention and attention and effort, we can not only row the boat with our spiritual, not mechanical, but spiritual power, but we row the boat with our spiritual power. We also steer the boat and steer the boat. Look me in my eyes. Steer the boat. Directing and redirecting the flow of what we are swimming in. Moving through so that we determine our direction. Not the current, but our own steering. Not what's going on out there, but our own steering. Our own engine. Lord have mercy.