“Never forget.”What is the opposite of welcome?Disregard.Distrust.Ambivalence.Neglect.Abandonment.“I asked Brenner what he felt when standing on this platform and seeing these dates, these numbers, these words. He paused and looked around at the trees above us, his eyes moving slowly back and forth as if he were searching for the answer in the leaves. ‘I cannot process it. My mind cannot process it. And obviously,' he wiped at his eyes, ’my body can process it.’”There is a way that welcome feels in the body. And disregard, distrust, ambivalence, neglect, abandonment - the body carries those, too.We are asked not to forget the Holocaust that killed millions of Jews and untold numbers of Roma people, and LGBTQIA+ people.Just because we cannot forget the evils of the past does not mean we cannot work to transform them into dreams of a better future. Indeed, this is one of the deepest calls of being human. Our Unitarian Universalist values call us to the work of transformation - we cannot transform what we do not know. We cannot heal the hurt we do not recognize. We cannot bind the wound we cannot see.Never forget.Always welcome.Work to heal.So may it be.

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