Monday, May 01, 2006
Desiring Centredness
Call me an old git, but I have been listening to Radio 4 a lot recently, where the issue of people's loss of centredness has come up in debates and conversations. In the last one, on 'Start of the week' by Andrew Marr, with one my journalistic heros, there was a discussion on spirituality and centredness.
In this conversation, people talked about being moved by spiritual art, by liturgy or services, and other church activities, but that for them, it did not offer quote 'anything to offer their lives in the real world' or to put another way 'anything regarding a way of life that aided people to be centred or resourced'.
Yesterday I warmed up to what has been developed by Moot as an emerging five point rhythm of life which for me was deeply earthed into an emerging church based in a city. Why am I excited - well firstly because it has something to say to the question of centred living, where centred living goes beyond patterning life as a function of pure consumption which is utterly and unhealthy me-centred. It has something to say about our health in relationship not only to ourselves, but also to others, God and the planet.
It is positive, it seeks a transformative and hopeful better world, and it seeks a vision of relatonship with God that helps us recognise our human 'becoming-ness'.
Further, it relates to the piece I put up here about 'deconstruction, reconstruction, faith & theology', in that it is based on a way of reconstruction that holds in tension building a sense of health & faith in the real post-modern culture and world, whilst holding onto the faith received through the ancient but reframed into the present.
So well done Moot, it is all very exciting!! I think it will help all of us to be more centred spiritually and health-wise. It will also help those who look on, to see what it is we hold dear as a spiritual community.
I look forward to our rhythm of life further development, as it is already helping me in my own spiritual centredness and will most definately help me as I encounter and interact with those who surf the cyberedges of this community.
In this conversation, people talked about being moved by spiritual art, by liturgy or services, and other church activities, but that for them, it did not offer quote 'anything to offer their lives in the real world' or to put another way 'anything regarding a way of life that aided people to be centred or resourced'.
Yesterday I warmed up to what has been developed by Moot as an emerging five point rhythm of life which for me was deeply earthed into an emerging church based in a city. Why am I excited - well firstly because it has something to say to the question of centred living, where centred living goes beyond patterning life as a function of pure consumption which is utterly and unhealthy me-centred. It has something to say about our health in relationship not only to ourselves, but also to others, God and the planet.
It is positive, it seeks a transformative and hopeful better world, and it seeks a vision of relatonship with God that helps us recognise our human 'becoming-ness'.
Further, it relates to the piece I put up here about 'deconstruction, reconstruction, faith & theology', in that it is based on a way of reconstruction that holds in tension building a sense of health & faith in the real post-modern culture and world, whilst holding onto the faith received through the ancient but reframed into the present.
So well done Moot, it is all very exciting!! I think it will help all of us to be more centred spiritually and health-wise. It will also help those who look on, to see what it is we hold dear as a spiritual community.
I look forward to our rhythm of life further development, as it is already helping me in my own spiritual centredness and will most definately help me as I encounter and interact with those who surf the cyberedges of this community.
