The Truth Shall Set You Free: Practicing Transformative Lament
Next Church Conference – Chicago 2015
Facilitated by, Tasha Hicks McCray (Mt. View Presbyterian Church) & Eliana Maxim (Seattle Presbytery)
The following is a collaborative poem comprised of responses from workshop participant’s to the question, Who Do You Say That I am? compiled by Glenn McCray.
I am from:
Seattle
Florida
Washington DC
Wisconsin (actually, Michigan)
I am from:
Illinois
McCormick (and we roll deep)
Austin Seminary but Gainesville is where home is
I am from:
Chicago…I’m not Presbyterian
Ann Arbor
Minneapolis
I am from:
We don’t want to offend anyone but someone needs to say it
I am from:
A place of regret
I am from:
Shame; a place that exist that I am not proud of
I am…
Many things
I am…
Not Presbyterian!
I am…
Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, Irish, German, Dutch, Welsh
I am…
African American, Filipino, Spanish, Irish, Native (and some other stuff I’m not too
certain of)
I am…
An Afro-Caribbean, Sephardic, immigrant from Colombia. Spanish was my first
language, and I don’t have an accent.
I am…
A son of immigrants, fearfully and wonderfully made
I am…
A white male, top of the heap, most privileged
I am…
A Princeton Graduate
I am…
In the ordination process
I am…
Vulnerable, exposing my own prejudices and biases
I am…
A redeemed sinner
Gods own
I am…
A child of God
In process
Unfolding
Seeking
Thinking
I am…
“Re…” something…REdeemed, REformed
I am…
Baptized
Grateful and troubled
Just another child of God
I am…
An aging beloved woman
I am…
A Single mother of 3 kids
I am…
Wonderfully being shaped
I am…
Creative
I am…
Loved