You Are Invited
Living Stones
Every day I
am astonished by / how little I know, and discouraged,
obedient as I
am to the demand to / know more — always more.
But then
there is the slow seep / of light from the day,
and I look to
the west where / the hills are darkening,
setting their
shoulders to the night, / and the sky peppered with pillows
of mist,
their bellies burnt / by the furnace of the sun.
And it is
then that I notice / the invitation didn’t say, Come
armed with
knowledge and a loud voice.
It only said,
Come.
—“Come”
by Andrew Colliver
The
invitation to join us for worship, for fellowship, for moral action in our
communities is never qualified. You are
welcome to come as you are. With all
that you are. No matter where you’ve
been. No matter the baggage that you
carry. Regardless of income, education,
race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability level, age, background. . . . You are invited into God’s loving
embrace. You are invited into the quirky
and questioning, open-minded and justice-seeking community that we embody as we
seek to live ever more faithfully into who God is calling each one of us to be
. . . and what God is calling us – as a community – to do. You are invited. Come!
See you in church,
Christy
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