Today, I invite you to pray these words of Bishop
Charleston with me. Speak each word
aloud slowly, letting the syllable slowly leap off your tongue, leaving behind
a savory/spicy/sweet taste. Pause at the
end of each sentence to give what you just prayed aloud time to sing and sink
into your soul. Read and re-read, rinse
and repeat, until these words have wedged their way into your heart and until
God has been discovered in what you are praying. These are God’s words to you:
Let me celebrate your outrageousness, your odd quirks,
and your essential strangeness. That’s
what I like best about you; that is what I admire. You not only move to the beat of a different
drum, but you have a whole symphony. You
notice what many of us never see. You
find what the rest of us forgot we lost.
You have bypassed the need to be with the in-crowd and have created a
community of dreamers. I, for one, honor
your weirdest vision and your most unconventional idea. Without you, the world would be a bad
movie. So, from one oddball to another,
thank you for being what you are not. Steven Charleston
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