Hope Rises Like Bread - Wild Goose Festival

Dreams are born
Visions are nourished
Minds are changed
Spirits rearranged

And people leave
With eyes and arms opened
To the whole wide aching world.

Ready to go to work
Ready to stand for justice
And sing new songs of hope
Ready to trouble the waters,

Create and awaken.
And ready to make a difference.

Tears and laughter collide,
converge,
Make something amazingly new together.
Sometimes even mercy falls like rain.

Conversations that might not happen anywhere else
Begin, blossom, blow
the lid off.

Questions are brought out of hiding
And somehow, someway,

Hope rises like bread.

This is what happens because
the Wild Goose Festival happens.