Author: clfuu

“I want to be like that, and I am, I guess. In my job as a minister, the bricks are stories. I hear stories of family and work, stories of loss and reconciliation, stories of rejection and disaster, illness and healing, birthing and dying. I tell stories every Sunday and in between, teaching, challenging, confessing, inviting people to learn and laugh and think.

Brick by brick, story by story, we build a church, seeing the patterns, the symmetry, the plain joy of setting one story on the other, sustained by the strong and beautiful structures they make. We will never be finished.”
– Rev. Meg Barnhouse

What are the patterns you notice in the stories of your life today?

There is a skyscraper in San Francisco that is tilting. It is thought that the tilt is a result of the desire for the builders to save money by setting the building’s foundation pilings in dense sand instead of putting them all the way down to the bedrock. New foundation pilings will need to be placed underneath this massive structure to keep it from falling over.

How do you need to be shored up today? How can your foundation be strengthened to help you face another day?

From space, our entire planet is a tiny blue-green marble. All of human life that exists, and all of human life that has ever existed, and all of the life that we are aware of existing, has existed on that marble or in the space just around it. From afar, we are reminded of the profound connection we have to our planet and its beings.

How can you shift your perspective to see something differently today?

“You are beautiful; every part of you beautiful just the way you are
You do not need to change anything about yourself to be welcome here:
Your skin, your hair, your belly, your limbs, your face—
all beautiful just the way they are
You are extraordinary”
– Rev. Sharon Wylie

What can you do to understand yourself as beautiful today?

It’s been a long dark night
And I’ve been a waitin’ for the morning
It’s been a long hard fight
But I see a brand new day a dawning
-Dolly Parton, “Light of a Clear Blue Morning”

What is dawning new in your life? How can you make it happen more clearly?