“Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.” Deuteronomy 31:12-13 ESV

thank you Father
for the different flavors
of the body,
for the way
you made us each unique,
for the sweetness
of hands joining
before the table
of grace,
for grievances shed,
for differences melting swiftly
into puddles
of paint,
for sisters and brothers
coming together
to share the art
of summer
with the saints.

Amen.