From the ELCA Youth Gathering Blog:
"The grace of a new beginning" (2/3/2016)
Awaken I
recognize that everyone has a To the nearly 30,000
people who
In his poem
“For a New
Beginning,” John O. Donohue writes:
Though
your destination is not clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is one with your
life’s desire.
your spirit to adventure
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in
risk
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm
For your soul
senses the world that awaits you.
comfort zone. How hard (and how often)
are you willing to work to get out of
it? Many who have chosen to come
to Detroit this summer chose to do so because
something – someone – was
urging them forward to experience new ground. The
“destination is not
[always] clear” but, as Donohue reminds us, we can “trust
the promise.”
have already registered for the 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering,
thank you for being
willing to “unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning.”
And, with Donohue, I
pray that you are awakened to the Spirit of adventure
in you, that you hold
nothing back, that you discover the new rhythm
that awaits you in Detroit and
join your soul to the world you will experience
there.