Sunday after Sunday we hope the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. will enlarge our vision of community to include diverse people. That love is what holds us together at West Parish. Love is the peg that keeps us from slipping away from one another. We come here to find community, and also to find ourselves. We focus on dysfunctional families these days.
Many adults feel they are limited by the circumstance of their less than perfect childhood.
I had wonderful parents, but I was a mess as a teenager. The meaning of original sin is that none of us had perfect parents, none of us had an idyllic childhood. The meaning of growing up is to differentiate ourselves from our parents. I am saying there is no reason that has to be. With help from congregations like this, children of the second generation are free to break the cycle of abuse and violence and be themselves.