transformation
Per Rev. Kate Tucker's 4/3/2011 sermon "Have you been there, too?"
- A Letter From Sendai, by Anne Thomas (Ode magazine, March 14)
- Finding the Blessing, by Rev. Bill Sinkford, Senior Minister, First Universalist Church, Portland, Oregon
Per the 4/10/2011 sermon "The Encounter, Part 1," featuring Lionel's story of how he was transformed with the help of Amicus
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Click here for more information about Amicus, and becoming a One-to-One volunteer.
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Restorative Justice initiatives within the Minnesota Department of Corrections
Poem: The Layers
By Stanley Kunitz
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
“Live in the layers,
not on the litter.”
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written,
I am not done with my changes.
