Let’s go a little deeper this time. Rev. Rebecca Parker concludes her poem, “Choose to Bless the World,” by asserting, “There is an embrace of kindness that encompasses all life, even yours. And while there is injustice, anesthetization, or evil, there moves a holy disturbance… protesting, urging, insisting that which is sacred [and life affirming] will not be defiled. Those who bless the world live their life as a gesture of thanks for this beauty and this rage.” What form is your gesture of thanks taking? Where do you feel the disturbance? What breaks through your anesthetizations and calls on you to bless the world? Let’s share from our own gifts of experience and choice, possibility and hope.