Are we like-minded with you?

Adapted from words by Dana E. Worsnop

https://www.uua.org/offices/people/dana-e-worsnop

Often people say that they love going to a place with so many like-minded people.

I know just what they are getting at — but I know that if that’s all that I want, I’m not getting it quite right.

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I have felt on the outside, before; on the outside of a group of like-minded people.

So now, I want to be in a beloved community where I don’t have to think like everyone else to be loved, to be eligible for salvation.

I want to be with people who see me in me goodness and dignity, who also see my failings and foibles, and who still love me.

I want to be with people who are willing to hold my hand as I walk the tight rope that is life, and who will let me hold their hand as they walk the tight rope that is theirs.

I want to be with people who covenant to be honest, engaged and kind, who strive to keep their promises and hold me to the promises I make.

Church or no church, I won’t find that, in a bunch of people who think just like me.

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So:

I want to be with people who have many names and no name at all for God.

I want to be with independent-minded people of good heart.

I want to be with people who give of themselves, who share their hearts and minds and gifts.

I want to be with people who inspire one another to follow the call of the spirit.

I want to be with people who see life as a paradox and don’t always rush to resolve it.

I want to be with people who let church call them into a different way of being in the world.

I want to be with people who feel their interconnection with all existence and let it guide their footfalls upon the earth.

I want to be with people who value compassion, justice, love and truth, though they have different thoughts and opinions about all sorts of things.

I want to be with people who support, encourage and even challenge each other to higher and more ethical living.

I want to be with people who know that human community is often warm and generous, sometimes challenging; and almost always a grand adventure.

I don’t want to be with a bunch of people who think just like I do.

I want to be with people like you.