What does it mean to Bridge successfully?
The first aspect is about the transition from youth to adulthood. Adulthood is different than Youth. It carries dangers, responsibilities, challenges of its own. Can you stay fully present, fully yourself, even as your environment and your role change around you? Can you master your new tasks without losing your soul? That is the spiritual journey of the Bridger.
But there is also a second layer to spiritual process of Bridging. As an adult member of a circle-based subculture, you will be a Bridgewalker all of your life. You will walk between church and society, your home and your workplace, just as you once perhaps walked between school and YRUU. Can you learn to do that with pride, carrying the circle values and teachings into the outside world, carrying fresh air and meaningful challenges back into the circle? As a UU adult, it is your heritage to be a Walker Between Worlds. Learn to understand it, learn to do it well.
There is a third layer. The Walker Between Worlds is another name for the Shaman, a person who can journey between the realms of earth and spirit, who can move from the sunlit world of daily life to the moonlit world of dreams to bring back messages, visions, information. This is related to the archtype of the Queer god: messenger, translater, trickster, doorkeeper, midwife, psychopomp, one foot in each of two worlds. The Humanist word, I think, is Artist. The old Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic word is Prophet.
UU young adults who can learn to successfully Walk Between the Worlds will become the Prophets of our people.
So may it be.