Scorekeeping is about who hurts whom more. In the long-term, no one wins.

May the words that I speak remind others that they are beloved.

Building relationships requires the risk of being open and curious.

Holy Reconciler, help us make peace with each other.

I have struggled forgiving myself for not knowing how to create appropriate boundaries.

May we remember to slow down when we find ourselves having difficult conversations.

Every relationship is an ongoing story that unfolds between people.

12-Step recovery has provided me with perspective, forgiveness, and freedom from shame.

We don’t need to understand why someone sets a boundary to respect it.

We must choose each other again and again, though conflict and through plenty.

Every time someone showed up for me, I learned that love is greater than skin deep.

I learned that love and support can be expressed in many different ways by different people.

It’s through our shared interdependence that we are sheltered and saved.

May I have the wisdom to be curious when I find myself grumbling about “them.”

This is a "love saves" story.

Over the years, I’ve built up an impressive array of tools for meetings: I-statements, being assertive, and all of that stuff. What I could improve on, though, is knowing when to switch tools.

A new disease, without any cure, is pushing us apart. And, yet, we cannot escape one another. We need one another. Whether I acknowledge it or not, the guarantee of safety does not exist.

Years ago, I did one of those mud run obstacle races. There were eight physical obstacles on the course, but my biggest learning was that we all had a ninth obstacle.

In this community, we hold hope close. We don’t always know what comes next, but that cannot dissuade us. We don’t always know just what to do, but that will not mean that we are lost in the wilderness. We rely on the certainty beneath, the foundation of our values and ethics. —Rev. Theresa I.

A lot of us feel like our lives should have come with instructions. Or maybe they did, but we lost the only copy a long time ago.