"I remind folks before receiving the Eucharist that, as human beings, we often don't always get things right. So I welcome them to the human race, the whole catastrophe, in all our imperfections, so that they will come to communion . . . communion is not some grand prize for the perfect person but rather food for the hungry one . . . I try to get the congregation to embrace their collective hunger and to have a lighter grasp on perfection."
Today, know that you are fully embraced, accepted, welcomed just as you. When we feel this unconditional, gentle, fierce embrace of love, when we release the anxiety of not being good enough, of not being worthy of blessing or love, then we can grow.