February 12, there was an all-ages worship with many hands tending! Thank you to Cecelia Hayes for turning us toward our ancestors and black history; thank you Eric Lane Barnes and the Mighty Choir for leading song and shimmy; LeAnne Struble for shepherding families. Rev. Maria Cristina for leading in love. and to all the back-stage tech, usher, greeter folk. We were so fortunate to welcome 20 children into our community!
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
-“On Children” by Kahlil Gibran
by Amanda Alice Uluhan, Director of Religious Education