Belonging

​ by Aaron Mirkin

Christ became entirely human. 

And there is no suffering he does not know.
And no place of darkness he has not been. 

And every morning we say:
Yes! – no matter what comes.
Yes! – the path of my inner development is laid down before me by my weaknesses.
Yes! - To each one is entrusted his share of the Fall – to bear and raise up- slowly and carefully. 

- And as we raise ourselvs, so too do we raise the world around us. 

And His Passion becomes our Passion,
And His Easter becomes our Easter,
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And there is nothing that does not belong.

This poem formed the starting point for a discussion among the members of the Board of Trustees in January 2018 about the meaning of belonging to a congregation of The Christian Community.