Comparing us to dandelions, Rev. Theresa Soto writes, “You are no less resilient, reaching/both down to the strength that holds you,/and up, up to the light, out with your beauty.”
-Theresa I. Soto, “Taraxacum”
How are you resilient? How do you root yourself deeply and persist in growing?
Allowing ourselves to be human involves allowing ourselves to make mistakes. To practice abundant grace and understand that we will not ever be perfect.
How do you forgive yourself for past mistakes?
We honor those whose lives have been dedicated to serving others, to serving the ideals of freedom and justice, and to serving the values of community and collective responsibility.
What greater ideals and values do you hope to serve?
Faith is necessary to make our possibilities reality. Faith in ourselves, faith in our communities, faith in the power each of us has to create.
What does it mean to you to “have faith?”
“I know this rose will open. I know my fear will burn away.”
-Mary Grigolia, “I Know This Rose Will Open”
What possibilities do you need to unfold that are tightly bound and hidden away?
