The Reverend Mark DeWolfe Sermon

A MATTER OF SIZE – TWO KINDS OF POWER


 

Reverend Mark DeWolfe

A Person is a Puzzle

A Poem by Mark Mosher DeWolfe

A person is a puzzle.
Sometimes from the inside,
it feels like some pieces are missing.
Perhaps one we love is no longer with us.
Perhaps one talent we desire eludes us.
Perhaps a moment that required grace
found us clumsy.
Sometimes, from the inside,
it feels like some pieces are missing.
A person is a puzzle.
We are puzzles not only to ourselves
but to each other.
A puzzle is a mystery we seek to solve
and the mystery is that we are whole
even with our missing pieces.
Our missing pieces are
empty spaces we might long to fill,
empty spaces that make us who we are.
The mystery is that we are only what we are
and that what we are is enough.
In the stillness of this morning,
into the accepting peace of earth, sea and sky,
let us offer our failings,
our inadequacies,
into the silence.
And let us know that we are accepted,
by God and by this company,
exactly as we are.
Accepted.
Missing pieces, and all.


Thank you!

Kathy, Judy, Joan, Bert, Camille, Tisa, Susan, Anthony, Fiona.
Without your help, this work would not have been possible.

Brigitte Twomey