sunday service 8.27.17

Up early again on a Sunday morning, enjoying the choir of crickets before sunlight makes a sermon.

I can’t believe it’s been a month already and today, I am headed back to the library to convene a deep writing workshop with a group of strangers. Yes, my anxious, imperfect self – leading a bunch of other anxious, imperfect souls.

I remind myself of the beauty in imperfection and how a broken thing whispers a secret message to the parts of myself that I see as flawed, unfinished or shabby.

So today, I pray a giant YES to all the stuff I think needs fixing or changing. And by doing that, I whisper a secret invitation for all passersby to say YES as well.

Yes to gray hairs, stubborn nose hairs, hairy toes and hair in the bathtub drain.
Yes to the sound of my voice, the sound of the clock tick-ticking while I write, the sound of traffic outside the window.
Yes to forgetting things, dropping things, losing things and so many things I think I need, but don’t really.
Yes to cracks, to crumbles, to criss-crossing, to bat-shit crazy.
Yes to the silence, the spaces, the blanks that beg to be filled in.
Yes to the abundance of weeds in the front yard, the persistent squirrels in the back and sinister yellow-jackets nesting in the rain-gutter.

Yes to courage, but not the tidy kind. Yes to the courage that comes from getting down in the mud together, from spilling the milk together, from shattering a precious vase and beholding all the jagged, sparkly pieces together.

YOUR TURN

Sunday Service is a recurring community feature and you are invited to join the party!

Regardless of faith, prayer is a beautiful thing. It can be grateful, it can be joyful, it can be a question, it can be a song. This is a place where your writing can be your prayer, an open door for higher wisdom to ‘runneth over.’

Use the post to the right as an invitation to write your own Sunday Service or capture an image that elicits a stirring in your soul. Keep it short, make it washed in your truth. Write it for you, not for us.

But then share it with us. Trust us. Your words are important to us.

Post your writing or a link to your writing/photo in the comments below.

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