Friday, December 29, 2006
Joining the dots
Not polka dots like Mike's, but some not terribly novel linking of ideas ...
I was very struck by Gareth's post, as it's a pain I share (and I guess lots of us do). Pray moot can model the more accepting community that post points to.
I was then struck by the headline in today's http://www.sacredspace.ie which offers the thought that
God is not foreign to my freedom
That freedom - the freedom that comes from a grounding in reality, God's reality - has to be the source of the kind of radical welcome that moot means to offer. Perhaps it's partly through being a bureaucrat that I find myself so easily conforming to others' patterns - whether trying to imitate or to please or to fit in. That is the un-reality and the un-freedom that makes for exclusion and judgement of others. So it turns out that the prayer for us as moot to model the inclusive and loving community God calls for, is also a prayer for me to be real and to be free.
Now where's the next dot ...
I was very struck by Gareth's post, as it's a pain I share (and I guess lots of us do). Pray moot can model the more accepting community that post points to.
I was then struck by the headline in today's http://www.sacredspace.ie which offers the thought that
God is not foreign to my freedom
That freedom - the freedom that comes from a grounding in reality, God's reality - has to be the source of the kind of radical welcome that moot means to offer. Perhaps it's partly through being a bureaucrat that I find myself so easily conforming to others' patterns - whether trying to imitate or to please or to fit in. That is the un-reality and the un-freedom that makes for exclusion and judgement of others. So it turns out that the prayer for us as moot to model the inclusive and loving community God calls for, is also a prayer for me to be real and to be free.
Now where's the next dot ...
