You are not your label, not your past, not your pain.

You are not the role they gave you, or the silence they left you in.

You are a child of God, clothed in Christ,

Wrapped in grace, woven into the family of faith.

No division can undo this. No title can outshine it.

No boundary can break it.

You are one, with the broken and the healed,

The bold and the weary, the stranger and the friend.

You belong. You are beloved. You are baptized into unity,

The Spirit whispers: Welcome home.

© Susan Ruth Robertson 92561/10242025