A blessing for picking up the pieces
Blessed are you, who pick up the pieces: who gather sticks and saw down limbs, who drag away the broken branches and rake up what you can amid chaos ... — Eliza Smith DeBevoise
Eliza Smith DeBevoise is an ordained minister in the PC(USA) serving in a validated ministry at Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she is university chaplain, director of community engagement and lecturer of religious studies.
Blessed are you, who pick up the pieces: who gather sticks and saw down limbs, who drag away the broken branches and rake up what you can amid chaos ... — Eliza Smith DeBevoise
In touchstone moments, students return to ritual, writes Eliza Smith DeBevoise. This is a generation who desires honesty over being polished, awareness over versatility.
"I had always felt firmly rooted in my Presbyterian identity yet drawn to ecumenical and interfaith spaces." — Eliza Smith DeBevoise
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