Look at these beautiful smiles! We just kicked off the Bridging program with these three high school seniors! What a gift to hear their reflections on memories made from growing up and coming of age within our UCM church community. I got teary and want to thank you all for being a congregation that treasures our young people and makes them feel welcome and loved and seen for who they are. Thank you, John Poeton, for your great co-facilitation. We'll have three more sessions during the church year and then the Bridging ritual during worship in the spring.
Our opening words from Ann Patchett, in What Now?
When you leave this place, . . . be sure to come back. Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
Every choice lays down a trail of bread crumbs, so that when you look behind you there appears to be a very clear path that points straight to the place where you now stand.
But when you look ahead, there isn’t a bread crumb in sight--there are just a few shrubs, a bunch of trees, a handful of skittish woodland creatures.
You glance from left to right and find no indication of which way you are supposed to go.
And so you stand there, sniffing at the wind, looking for directional clues in the growth patterns of moss, and you think, What now?
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