Life’s Longing For Itself

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November’s worship theme is Belonging. To belong can be a position of some ambivalence. Often a comfort and sometimes a curse. Where are we meant to fit? To whom are we suited for? Are we meant to be neatly socially classified? Are we cosmically the property of anyone but ourselves? In this Autumn month in which we honor the harvest season, National Indigenous People Heritage Month, the Thanksgiving holiday, and are striving to gather in generous Beloved Community in times fraught with polarization and global strife… let us commune each Sunday in a way in which we can all belong and be longing together. 

We’re living through unprecedented times with climate crises, global pandemics, rising authoritarianism, international conflicts, and the unpredictable effects of social media and artificial intelligence. But our children are living, and growing up, through this too, perhaps even more profoundly shaped by these events than we are. Children around the world are living in a world in which they have very little say or control. Let us honor their voices and their experiences and understand that, as Khalil Gibran said, our children are not our own but are the offspring of life’s longing for itself.

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