An Unexpected Sermon

Sermons come in many forms.

Sometimes they’re in church. This week we all got to hear a wonderful message from Amanda Gorman, America’s first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate.

Ms. Gorman read her poem THE HILL WE CLIMB at President Biden’s inauguration. If you didn’t hear her recitation, I recommend looking it up.

The poem included any number of mic-drop lines, but I’ve been stuck on this:

For there is always light

If only we’re brave enough to see it

If only we’re brave enough to be it.

It’s easy to curse the darkness, a bit easier to point to the light.

Am I brave enough to be the light?

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