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From July/August 2010 Quest: "My ministry at the Church of the Larger Fellowship, though I can already imagine it in full bloom in my mind's eye, is really in the tiniest beginning stages. I am awed just thinking about what we can do and who we can be together! We have unparalleled opportunity to create a deep and wide spiritual oasis together. But while I am excited to imagine what we can become, most of all I want to walk through each day in full gratitude for what is already here.
CLF is more like a thousand acres than a city lot. I can't walk its perimeter each day. So I would love your help in the days ahead—please reach out to me, say hello, let me know what life looks like from your corner. Each conversation I have with a CLF member is a step on a spiritual promenade for me, which helps me to appreciate still more the abundant life that graces our church without walls."
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Meg's Prayer for School Children
A prayer for school children who are different
For those who are different, or who feel different—
Who learn differently, think differently, feel differently,
Who look different, whose faith is different, whose family is different,
Whose way to connect is different, whose way to dress is different,
Whose faith is different, whose place to live is different,
Whose sexuality is different, whose gender is different,
Whose culture is different, whose language is different,
Whose favorite foods are different, who loves different smells,
Whose body looks different, or works differently
Whose values and beliefs are different--
Do you see that different is just a word?
May you be freed from its poison.
Different: Just an idea laced with fear,
Don’t let it scare you.
A word expressing lack of imagination by those who use it to judge,
Don’t let it limit your own.
They can’t see that difference is the very essence of life,
The opposite of different isn’t normal; it is death.
Don’t let their sharp thorns kill your true self.
As the school doors open again,
May you walk in safety,
With all of your unique loveliness intact,
Knowing you are loved by people who haven’t even met you yet.
People you see and don’t see,
Your closest friends and family, and people who will never meet you,
All hold you in our hearts.
We need every bit of you as we walk our own different paths.
As the summer days end,
May you find the long days’ bright light
Shining in your mind as you learn.
As you go out on this crazy river, this life
Where you will navigate choppy waters, take new turns,
May you know in your bones you are never alone.
As you search for a place of ease and comfort,
May you know in your cells that it lives within you.
And that people who love you are everywhere smiling.
Meg's Packet for the CLF Search Committee
Meg's Blog Posts
Meg's Monthly Quest Column
Read Meg's column, "From
Your Minister," in CLF's monthly mailing, Quest.
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