HAPPY PRIDE BELOVEDS

This Pride, I hope you embrace the tenderest parts of yourself, the parts that need nurturance, patience, and compassion. The parts that make you most human, most holy, most you. I hope you know how loved you are in this world. How much you matter. How your presence, exactly as you are, makes this world more beautiful and more whole.

You are God’s light in this world, radiant, needed, and beloved. The world needs your voice. It needs your story. It needs your authenticity. It needs you. May we remember that the bravest thing we can do, is be ourselves.

In Love and Solidarity,
Pastor Eli

"The Bravest Thing We Can Do" by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

"Trust your belovedness.

Let it be a protest,

an act of resistance,

a song of celebration.

Trust your belovedness in a world

that is rarely satisfied.

Wear it like a badge of honor.

Speak it as confidently as your last name.

Tattoo it to your heart.

When outside forces

chip away at your sense of self,

when life asks you

to hand over the keys,

remember the water.

Remember creation.

Remember how it was good,

so very good.

Let that truth hum through your veins.

Sing it so loud

that it drowns out the weariness of the world,

for the bravest thing we can ever do

is trust that we belong here."