Early this winter, Seminarian Liz Kuster invited folks who joined her for Small Bytes and the Wednesday Morning Study to consider what makes a text holy. Below is a list of those texts shared by folks who joined online and in person at HTLoop and HTLakeview.

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Poetry
John O’Donohue’s “To Bless the Space Between Us”
Gibran
Hymns
“Praise to the Lord” as arranged by F. Melius Christiansen
Taize song books
“If I Had a Hammer” by The Weavers
Amanda Gorman’s poem (hindsight of a holy moment)
“When it happens in community, the event becomes holy itself” -Pr. Mueller
Lutheran Confessions/Book of Concord
Bible (Romans and Galatians changed Martin Luther’s view of his relationship with God)
“The Unicorn” by Shel Silverstein
Morning verses from Waldorf
Depth and mystery. “You don’t get the whole thing the first time you read it, but when you come back you see something you didn’t see before.” - Ryan LaHurd
Lexio Divina
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver