Sunday | A Home For All (Joy)

Advocating for Home
Read: Luke 3:1-18
Poem by: Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed

I know you don’t feel at home in your body.
     Your clothes don’t feel right.
     Your bones don’t feel right.
     Your name, just a word that people have labeled you with.
I see the way you try on pronouns like I try on clothes,
looking for something—anything—that feels right.

And what I would give to build you a shelter—
     a safe space where you could be,
     a home where you were safe and free.
What I would give to carve out some room
for you to process and grieve
and dance and sing your way
into your true self.
But I know
it’s not that easy.

My hands cannot build you safety.
My words cannot give you time.
My heart cannot be home enough.
So until the day when you are truly at home,
I will keep marching for you.
I will keep advocating for the home you deserve— the home in your own skin.
I will keep praying.
I will give you my second coat,
and the shirt off my back, and the food from my table.
I won’t give up on preparing the way.

A voice is calling out in the wilderness.
Do you hear it?

There’s more for us here than has been before.

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