What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.

I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward with festive anticipation. I embrace this holy moment and assert, "Now. This moment is the moment to love, the moment to serve, the moment to seize the legacy instead of the small. Now. Now I will live large, love boldly, reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope."

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.