Rebecca’s Writings

On June 6, our Youth Ministry Community will hold their annual graduation ritual for Stone Church high school seniors: Isabelle Wei, Andrew Bailey, Matt Moncrief, Chris Mertens, Colin Frohlich.

It is a God moment. Each graduation, be it from high school or college or kindergarten, measures the flow of time and marks our community. Memory and anticipation are a bittersweet mixture. We feel the presence of the communion of saints more keenly.

Wendell Berry captures the Spirit of this in his poem “Our Children, Coming of Age:”

In the great circle, dancing in
And out of time, you move now
Toward your partners, answering
The music suddenly audible to you
That only carried you before
And will carry you again.
When you meet the destined ones
Now dancing toward you,
We will be in line behind you,
Out of your awareness for the time,
We whom you know, others we remember
Whom you do not remember, others
Forgotten by us all.
When you meet, and hold love
In your arms, regardless of all,
The unknown will dance away from you
Toward the horizon of light.
Our names will flutter
On these hills like little fires.

May you experience God’s blessing and promise in this June dance.

Blessings,
Rebecca Kuiken