When you think of the border, do you feel powerlessness, Church?
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You are an asylum seeker. Maybe you got into a fight with the wrong person on the football field, and now you’re being threatened by one of the local gangs.
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Behind you stretches a series of footprints. They have brought you here, now. This here and this now, to which you have been pressing.
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I have spent some time on dusty roads—pilgrim’s ways that are steeped in equal parts history, mystery, and intention.
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There was wind tearing down the treeless pasture, tangling my hair behind me. The ocean wrapped around me on three sides.
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My kids and I counted the days we have been quarantined for COVID-19 today. The number is in the fifties. My eldest son looked at me and said, "Mom, that number makes me sad."
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Why are we here?
As a student of philosophy, I usually read that question with the emphasis on the Why.
For the past several months, I have been spending time with the spiritual practice of The Welcoming Prayer. This prayer was created by Mary Mrozowski and taught and popularized by Father Thomas Keating and the Contemplative Outreach Community.
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CHRIST IS RISEN!
HE IS RISEN, INDEED!
VICTORY OVER SIN AND DEATH HAS BEEN WON.
LOVE WINS!
My friend,
You are invited
to go to your
Facebook/ Instagram/ Twitter/ social media whatever
and scroll…
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My mom loves to describe a cartoon she saw once. Imagine a turtle decked out in a sweat band trailing behind a collection of other animals.
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No one tells you about the adjustment phase when you get married—when you’re adjusting to life together and encountering everything that your partner does differently than you.
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Three years ago I began the Incarnational Study Series. I wanted to create a system of tools that could be used online and in person to develop Christian Community in an accessible way.
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Where does this newsletter find you?
In the midst of this Coronavirus moment in history,
The Missional Wisdom Foundation has been following the unfolding events surrounding the pandemic spread of COVID-19.
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Many people are thinking about community this week. How do we create and maintain it in the age of social distancing? We are collectively learning and relearning that social and physical contact matters.
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I sat on the concrete steps to my first house. It wasn't a sitting porch, it wasn't even a rocking chair porch, it was an exaggerated stoop with enough overhang to keep postal boxes and one lonely, new mom dry.
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The rock face was wet. Water streamed from above his head down to his feet where it just stopped. There must have been a crack or hole just where the path met the cliff wall, because the dust of the path was only slightly impeded by the waterfall.
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How do you establish, maintain, and nurture a Dispersed Community?
This is one of the primary questions that pushes my work with the MWF.
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“He is around thirty pounds, with shaggy gray hair, a spotted tongue, his name is Barnaby, and I have had him for about fifteen years,” I say into the phone. “Yep, we definitely have your dog,” says the other person on the other end of the line.
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