I rouse to the melody of my alarm, and before my eyes can blink open and fully take in the light, my stomach tightens into knots. My dog Scout stirs, licks my hand, but she doesn’t yet rise.
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I have worked as a type of missionary with an unusual people group in my own community for years. Most of my educational effort on both the graduate and post graduate level has been largely focused on how we engage this affinity group with the Christian message in a way that is restorative in nature while being both easy to appropriate and reproducible.
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I love the MWF words “alternative Christian community.” I was not brought up going to church, but as a teenager I longed for community.
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“Absolute distinction.”
Incommensurable worlds. Dialectically opposed. Right and wrong, black and white, in and out.
A parable, this parable, invites us into the space between incommensurable worlds.
It had just rained. I remember because my nose hadn’t yet adjusted to the new pungent odors around the table. We were all anxious for food, so the chatter was at a minimum.
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Have you ever stood in the middle of a party, telling a fascinating anecdote, only to realize no one is listening? We shrink into ourselves shocked by the sight of our revealed selves. It is a brief moment of total disconnection and exposure.
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In earlier centuries, thousands of Christians took it upon themselves to become friars “on the move” so as to be found around neighborhoods where Christian community was weak or non-existent.
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Imagine.
ɪˈmædʒ.ɪn
Imagine is a word that fills the mouth.
For the next four weeks, the “Wisdom for the Way” will explore the parable, “The Jeweller,” from Soren Kierkegaard’s Stages of Life’s Way.
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The season of Epiphany is a time to celebrate the incarnational presence of God in the world. Jesus is here! Death is defeated! His life of miracle and mission imparts hope and purpose into humanity. It is a new season that invites us to reflect on the miracles at work.
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It is not difficult to imagine that the young Virgin Mary likely had an ordinary plan for her life before the Annunciation. When Gabriel arrived and Mary consented to be the mother of the Christ child, it is unlikely that she fully grasped the scope of that role.
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Starting with a spark in the sticks, the Holy Spirit has a crackling flame now in a small rural community in Virginia. We have a fledging cradle for the birth of a new thing on fourteen acres along a major highway including a restaurant and motel.
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Something has happened. Something is different.
Is it my shoulders? Well...they don’t feel so heavy, hmm.
My jaw...it has been so tight lately... why, it has released, and I can move it all about!
And my chest...oh how I can breathe in so fully!
Tamira began tutoring in Dallas with students whose families could afford her, and through her supportive and creative teaching efforts, her students emerged from the formation of her tutoring to enter into successful college careers.
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Who am I becoming? As Scrooge encounters a future without him, rippling with the effects of a life long-lived under his miserly virtues and values, he comes face to face with the impact of his actions, the harvest of seeds long-sown.
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A STEM tutor enters the space and prepares to receive three students this afternoon, working their way towards the SAT.
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Seeing light coming from the other room, Scrooge peeks inside to find that sure enough, the next ghost has paid his visit.
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This post originally was published on the My Spiritual Journey blog. Glenna is a friend of the Missional Wisdom Foundation who lives and writes in Dallas, Texas.
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Charles Dickens’s response to widespread apathy for the plight of the poor was to write A Christmas Carol. We owe the humanitarian spirit of the Christmas season to this work.
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“This is what I really need to know: is there a place for me in Christianity?” She was sitting in my office at The Foundry House intentional community, wearing rainbow unicorn onesie pajamas with a “My pronouns are she/her” enamel pin attached.
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