this place is bricks and mortar
and people and life
this place is work, love, compassion
music and dance
this place is twenty years of influence
shaping who i am and what i believe
this place is strong women
and kind men
this place is not lord or king
but god
this place is jesus was a teacher
not a sacrificial lamb
this place is religion is a choice
not a requirement
this place is not heaven or hell
but humanity
this place is powerful sermons
and touching prayers
this place is my grandparents’ warmth
and my mom singing at seventeen
this place is families, my tribe:
emerson, manning, crannell, and cline
this place is when you are broken
we will heal you
this place is home