We are the hands and feet of love. And sometimes its fingernails, too.

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but something began to change.

Loving sometimes takes all that we have.

Queer joy is resistance.

Love is reaching through the generations with expectations that I live through challenging times.

I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.

There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

People of faith are experts in human kindness.

Mental illnesses are sometimes called “no-casserole diseases.” People don’t bring casseroles to homes where someone is hospitalized for mental problems.

To be queer is to know the ways of holding all that shimmers to the light.

There’s never been a time in the United States history when black rebellions did not spark existential fear among white people.

The power to choose is the power of life in the midst of brokenness.

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

Spirit of Life who dwells before and between and beyond all words… we open ourselves to you.

May the beginnings and endings in our stories be held in unconditional love and acceptance.

It’s so [easy] to see the one disabled person and say, She needs a cure so she can fit into our world.

When I was small and just learning how to do life in my body, I didn’t hesitate, didn’t hold back, didn’t worry how it would look, didn’t look for cues or ask for a line. My imagination ruled... I was entirely free to be, driven by the innovation my body inspired. This is the wild...

Shame seems to be a bestselling product pumped out of all these crushing systems.

The following is an excerpt from the Theological Statement that opens the May 2018 Report of the UUMA Ableism Task Force. The members of that Task Force were Rev. Josh Pawelek and Rev. Barbara F. Meyers, co-chairs; Rev. Mark Belletini; Rev. Erika Hewitt; Rev. Evan Keely; and Rev. Theresa I. Soto.

Help me live in gratitude for the LGBTQ+ ancestors who paved this road we walk and roll on.