The pandemic has led many of us to experience life with more limitations than we were used to before. For others, it’s a doubling down of a life lived marginalized and oppressed within a system that claims not to do either. Whether it is more of the same, or a newer experience of living in a world where we can’t just do what we want, everyone is exhausted.

We have been constrained in ways we never consented to and forced by pandemic to change in ways we resist, but at the same time this is an opportunity for us to choose how to change. We have choices about how to create beloved community, welcome new families, develop as faithful people in loving, ethical relationship with others, and move our mission forward. We are not without options, even new options. We can choose to refill our glasses together.