🌤️🪑 SUNDAY
Beloveds,
Come sit down.
That’s it.
That’s the invitation.
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You don’t have to bring anything.
You don’t have to explain anything.
You don’t have to solve anything before you sit.
And you certainly don’t have to show up here pretending you have everything together.
It’s Sunday.
Let Sunday be Sunday.
🥰
Yesterday we had our popcorn.
🍿🎬
We watched a movie.
We laughed.
Maybe we noticed some things.
Maybe we carried a thought or two away from the screen.
But today?
I’m not handing out assignments.
🤣
I’m protecting a little space for rest.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the chair I keep putting beside me.
The chair has become one of my favorite things in this little 🌎 we’re building together.
Because the chair says something before I ever do.
Come.
Sit.
You are welcome here.
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Believer?
Pull up a chair.
Not a believer?
Pull up a chair.
Certain?
Chair.
Doubting?
Chair.
Still figuring out what you believe?
Chair.
Agree with me?
Chair.
Disagree with me?
Yep.
Still a chair.
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Different race.
Different culture.
Different politics.
Different body.
Different ability.
Different story.
Different questions.
Different life.
There is still room.
Because you do not have to resolve before you belong.
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I don’t want to build a little corner of the world where everybody has to become the same before we can care about one another.
We can have distinctions without turning those distinctions into distance.
We can disagree without deciding somebody has stopped being human.
We can listen without surrendering everything we believe.
We can learn.
We can laugh.
We can change.
We can stay.
We can leave room for mystery.
And sometimes we can simply sit beside each other for a while.
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That matters to me.
Especially on Sunday.
Because there will always be another thing to accomplish.
Another problem to solve.
Another conversation to have.
Another piece to write.
Another Monday coming.
👀🤣
Monday can wait its turn.
Today is not Monday wearing slippers.
🤣
Today gets to breathe.
So do you.
🌤️
Rest if you can.
Laugh if something is funny.
Eat something you enjoy.
Listen to something beautiful.
Watch something just because you want to watch it.
Look out the window.
Call somebody you love.
Say a prayer.
Take a nap.
Do absolutely nothing impressive.
You do not have to turn your rest into homework about rest.
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And when the new week arrives, we’ll meet it then.
There are more stories ahead.
More questions.
More keys.
More things to notice about ourselves and each other.
More opportunities to love this beautiful, complicated 🌎 a little better.
We’ll get there.
One step.
One step.
One step.
But not today.
Today?
Pull up a chair.
🪑
Stay awhile.
There is room for you here.
There always was.
You matter to me.
🔑
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
You are loved.
You are NOT alone.
Keep on being…YOU!
🪑🌤️
