Greetings!!! It is good to meet you. I hope that this message finds you well.
This is a fabulous day, a wonderful time to be alive. I feel lucky to be at a threshold in life. I wonder if we might explore that threshold together.
Years ago, I took a trip to Western Massachusetts. I went to a restaurant in a place called Shelburne Falls. It was a lovely, little town in the mountains and through that town runs the Deerfield River. Over it, the people of Shelburne Falls have built a beautiful bridge. It is a bridge of average construction. Structurally speaking, the bridge is not unique. What makes it special is how the people have learned to care for the bridge—how they maintain it, how they have chosen to decorate it. All along its reachable edges are flowers of every kind. Growing miraculously in the middle of town is a bridge of incredible possibility.
I believe that a church can be this beautiful, spanning the distance between what is good and true and right and that which is yet to flower. I hope that we can explore this possibility together.
Every blessing.
Rev. Dr. Leon L. Dunkley, Jr.