The Reverend Dr. Tim Jensen, newly called to First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Portland, Maine, writes:

Out of the Mouths of Babes

by Rev. Dr. Tim Jensen

“It’s a blessing we were born,
and it matters what we do,
What we know about god
is a piece of the truth,
Let the beauty we love
be what we do,
And we don’t have to do it alone.”

These are the lyrics to a song written for “Chalice Camp,” a Unitarian Universalist summer day camp created by Laila Ibrahim and the Reverend Sheri Prud’homme for six to twelve year-olds in California’s Pacific Central District. I learned about Chalice Camp from Jory Agate at our last Mass Bay District UUMA meeting, and was delighted by how well these simple words written for children expressed the lessons I’ve been trying to teach to grown-ups for the last quarter-century.

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