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nugget of nourishment
As we transition out of this school year and into the summer, I am thinking about you all and holding you in prayer during this season of transition. This blessing is one of my favorites for times like these. We will say it over the seniors at youth group on Sunday night. A blessing for beginnings and endings by Kate Bowler:
Blessed are we standing in the hallway
Between closed doors
And ones still to come,
Between the old and the new,
Between the worn-in
And the doesn’t-quite-yet-fit,
Between who we were
And who we might become.
God, make it remotely possible
To grow and change,
Become open to new adventures, and
Untethered to the routine
Or to the same-old.
Because the anxiety rising in our
Shoulders and filling our throats
Tells us we are unlikely, unwilling,
to step forward.
Blessed are we who take a minute
To look over our shoulder
At all we learned from what was,
The people we became,
The people who loved us into becoming.
The peace that came with familiarity.
Blessed are we who trust this timing,
And who open our hearts anew
To change, to new friends, to hope.
Nervous, maybe heavy-hearted,
But brimming with gratitude for a life
So beautiful that it hurts to say
Goodbye.
Blessed are our seniors, turning their eyes ahead
Toward a new path not yet mapped.
God, give them courage to take this
Next step,
And enough for the one after that, too.
Remind them that you have gone before,
And behind, and around,
And are with them now.
In our leaving, in our arriving,
In our changes, expected or shocking,
Surprise us with who we might
become.
Amen.
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