Sometimes true mutuality requires us not to make room for other postures, but to physically take the posture of another, so that we can indicate our vulnerability and our welcome to them.

If Christian Scripture is how you decide who to love and who not to, If Christian Scripture is your guiding force for who deserves protection, human decency, or value, Let me tell you a story...

nothing flows away without having created space for more life to begin

Live, dear one. Live deeply and fully. Embrace whatever place, you most long to occupy.

Through processes of struggle and change, I have found myself unrecognizable, having to get reacquainted with who I am now in this season, in this new skin, within my whole story. I have found myself in the process of both discovering my True self and also collaborating and improvising within community and alongside God, incorporating who I was with who I’m becoming as I live and create a new story.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was led to believe that her voice wasn’t important.

'I didn’t expect this' and 'Now what' are precisely the spaces where improv arrives again and again. As improvisers, we’re never expecting this; we arrive to the unexpected. We willingly take it on, delight in it, craft with it. What is mishap to the grief-stricken is the method of the improviser.

"your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi

Look at me. No glance. She’s notoriously defiant. I wait. Look at me. She continues ignoring me, eyes fixated on the world around her. Scout, look at me. She gazes up and begins to lick my nose.

Improv teaches that it’s not necessarily where we end up that matters the most, but that how we go will determine where we arrive, and who we become.