Blessings

Bloor & Avenue #1 (2012,11.7), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Like a star should your love be constant.

Like a stone should your love be firm.

Be close, yet not too close.

Possess one another, yet be understanding.

Have patience each with the other.

For storms will come but they will go quickly.

Be free in giving of affection and warmth.

Have no fear and let not the ways of words

Of the unenlightened give you unease.

For the spirit is with you.

Now and always.

Source unknown,

Courage to Love: Liturgies for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Community, edited by Geoffrey Duncan

Haitian Angels

Haitian Angels, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The Church – the body of Christ.

Christ who dined with tax gatherers and prostitutes.

Christ who affirmed women and respected them.

Christ who praised the Samaritan and the Roman.

Christ who stretched out his hand to the lame.

Two Thousand years later, when will we learn?

Jean Mayland,

Courage to Love: Liturgies for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Community, edited by Geoffrey Duncan