We pause to consider who we are and why we are here.
We pause to create, together, a container that is large enough to hold all:
To hold our joys and sorrows, our hopes and disappointments,
Our triumphs and our failures, our ideal selves and our actual selves.
We pause to weave, together, a net strong enough to catch all who are falling:
Those who are lonely or bereft, those who are marginalized or oppressed,
Those who find themselves falling through the cracks of an inhospitable world.
We pause to stitch together a blanket of caring broad enough to comfort all:
All the discomforts of living at a time when compassion is hard to find,
All the discomforts of increasing social and economic chaos and uncertainty.
We pause now for a moment of silence to create, together,
A container, a net, a blanket of human caring. [pause]
May we find hope in hopeless times.
May we find comfort in a world of discomfort.
And may we bring into being the love we seek,
Now and always, Amen!
