We sing to each other and we tell bedtime stories,
We share highs and lows and prayers at dinner,
We practice kindness and yoga and serving our neighbors,
We play Legos and peekaboo and cards and soccer,
We invite our friends in before everything looks “perfect,”
We make room for laughter and tears, mistakes and questions,
We read psalms, poems, board books, graphic novels,
We craft towers and forts and dreams and artwork,
We try to honor the sacred within all of God’s people,
We stumble, we break, we learn, we do better,
We say “I’m sorry,” “You are good” and “I love you forever,”
We cherish the light softening this world’s shadows.
// Inspired Lindsay Rush and written in the Exhale Creativity “Charmed” workshop.
Erin Strybis 