This morning brings us a charge. The Rev. Dr. Marni Harmony of the First Unitarian Church of Orlando, Florida writes that we must see our connection to the world if we are to live in it fully. May none of us remain “chained to a rusty anchor.”

I Say It Touches Us

By Rev. Dr. Marni Harmony

I say that it touches us that our blood is
sea water and our tears are salt, that the seed of our bodies is scarcely
different
from the same cells in a seaweed,
and that the stuff of our bones is like the coral.
I say that the tide rolls in on us, whether we like it or no, and the sands of time keep running their intended course.
I say we have to go down into the wave’s trough to find ourselves, and then ride her swell until we can see beyond ourselves into our neighbor’s eye.
I say that we shall never leave the harbor if we do not hoist the sail.
I say that we have got to walk the waves as well as solid ground.
I say that anyone who goes without consciousness of this will remain chained to a rusty anchor.
May the journey find us worthy. Amen.

Source: “I Say it Touches Us,” Rev. Dr. Marni Harmony, minister at the First Unitarian Church of Orlando, Florida; Church of the Larger Fellowship Quest Newsletter, June 2006.