Two passages that connect with me.
"Our journeys are varied, our experiences unique, but the home we seek is the same: a place of trust, a place of welcome, a place of respect." I like the idea that what we seek is home, a collection of individuals living together who can indeed be very different from each other yet generally do trust, welcome and respect each other.
"We are meant not to be a solo act, but a choir." Thinking of how different voices, (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, etc.) support and lift each other to make wonderful music is for me such a perfect analogy of a diverse group of people living and working together to make a better life for all.
Carol,
I love your choir analogy! What a clear and positive way to put it.
I love this analogy too!
It reminds me of a family story. When my mother was visiting my father's family for the first time, in a small Kentucky town, they were getting ready to to attend Sunday service at the local Church of Christ. "You'll get to hear Milly sing," my father said. "Oh," my mom asked, "Is she in the choir?" My dad, being a man of few words, just said, "No." Turns out, Milly was always a few words behind everyone else in the hymns.
And she sang loudly, and with gusto. "He's got the whole world in his hands!"
"...his hands!"
"He's got the whole wide world in his hands!"
".... hands!"
My mom got the giggles and glared at my father, who just smiled.
Milly was odd. Her tempo was off. But she sang anyway, and her singing lives on.