Call To Community Rev. Susan Karlson
We enter into this time of worship.
This time of deep healing and cleansing.
Sometimes the healing impulse calls for sobs and weeping,
Worried and fretted brows,
Anxieties too deep to speak.
Today, these feelings are very much with us—
They press in on every side
And yet we come to heal through the soothing balm of
laughter
This morning;
Not laughter that is forced or strained.
If you never let out a giggle, that is just fine.
No judgment here. No right or wrong way to be here.
Yet this morning, we would reach deep inside ourselves
To find that release through laughter,
Through chuckles and endorphins rising
Summoned from that well spring of hope and strength
We each possess.
We do not minimize the suffering and sorrow that has
happened to us
Or to our neighbors on the south shore.
We simply bring the joy of human connection and community to
this moment present before us;
The well spring of recovery and renewal.
We let the laughter rise or fall
And we simply are in this place--together
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