A focused moment created for use at Widen the Embrace, a conference of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity, London, October 21-23, 2011. It was inspired by a reading by Victoria Safford.

1. This
liminal
moment,
nestled
between and
what was what is
yet to
coalesce
into
being;

2. this liminal space,
a slice between where we were
and where we are going;

3. this liminal opportunity,
a breath between who we were
and who we will become –

4. thin as a blade,
it offers itself to us,
never shying away from any choice
that has brought us here.

5. Boldly, it opens into
this moment, this place, this breath.

6. We are
dancers
on the
very edges
of things,

7. our possibilities wrapped about us,

8. the hems of our dancing skirts
swirling in the chaos of what might be.

9. May
we
feel
the urgency of time
as
it
calls
to
us.

10. May
we
absorb
the density of space
in
which
we
find
ourselves.

11. May we breathe our way
into the fullness
of our being.

12. We are dancers on the very edges of
things.

13. So dance.