Sunday Service, July 25, 2021

Walking the Distance. Speaker: Emily Quarles-Mowrer.
One of my favorite posters from the late 1990’s features a lone penguin standing on an ice-flow with its adorable little wings spread wide. The caption on this poster reads, “Until you spread your wings, you will never know how far you can walk.” Some people pity the little penguin, but I see a message of acceptance. The penguin isn’t railing against nature for giving him wings better suited to water than air, but calmly moving forward, eyes toward a distant goal. Just like the penguin, all of us have limitations. Can we, like the penguin, accept the limitations of today and keep walking toward a better tomorrow?