A 9th-grader shared some wonderful reflections that made me think of a poster this student shared with me a couple years ago:
So I replied:
“I believe it delights God that every single one of God’s children has their own beliefs. If God wished us all to believe exactly the same things, that would be a lesser god, and your poster in my kitchen, “the world needed one of you,” would be crap. You might not enjoy seeing all the people you’ll see on your first day back today, and I sure as hell can’t understand many things about the world, but I believe God thinks the world needs all of them too. Not everything can be sugarcoated, but I believe entirely that our world is oozing with goodness, and you make it safer for me to believe that.”
Let’s spread that kind of safety.
Neil D. 2023-08-24

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