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$\"word$ <\/a>A few weeks ago, I\u00a0shared a sermon called Still We Rise<\/em>\u00a0with a congregation in the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalist cluster.\u00a0 Sometime later, I fed this sermon into a\u00a0program that\u00a0created the beautiful word cloud above.\u00a0 To me, it feels like a visual prayer.<\/p>\n

This past week has\u00a0been a storm of living for me, filled with the full spectrum of life and death, family, friends, administration, travel, and ministry.\u00a0 I am taking this morning to breath a prayer of gratitude for the years, for the feelings, for the connections, for\u00a0beauty,\u00a0strength, and courage,\u00a0for everyone who comes together in the struggle for beloved community.<\/p>\n

Dear ones, may you, too, find a moment to give thanks for the peace in the midst of the storm, for the love that holds us all and never lets us go.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"