One More

The Low Road (an excerpt)

Two people can keep each other

sane, can give support, conviction,

love, massage, hope…

Three people are a delegation,

a committee, a wedge  With four

you can play bridge and start

an organization.  With six

you can rent a whole house,

eat pie for dinner with no

seconds, and hold a fund raising party.

A dozen make a demonstration.

A hundred fill a hall.

A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter;

then thousands, power and your own paper;

a hundred thousand, your own media;

ten million, your own country.

It goes on one at a time,

it starts when you care

to act, it starts when you do

it again after they said no,

it starts when you say We

and know who you mean, and each

day you mean one more.

-by Marge Piercy in The Moon Is Always Female

We celebrate Confirmation this Sunday, as we pledge to support Ryan Fredrickson and his commitment to “Do Good, Do No Harm & Stay in Love with God.”  How does it feel for you to be part of a community of faith that supports young people “to be one more”?