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Serve the City
April's theme at the Conversations blog is 'Streams of the Faith', inspired by Richard Foster's work at Renovaré. We were asked to reflect upon our own experience within the six streams.
I gobbled up Richard Foster’s Streams of Living Water soon after it was published. His work gave me a way to name (and appreciate) the various influences which have formed my Christian experience, and affirmed my finding my true home in the contemplative tradition. I have loved learning and growing in this tradition, and it has been a delight to pass along to others what I’ve gained. When my church decided to do a teaching series on the streams of the Christian faith, preaching on the prayer-filled life was natural for me. It’s where I am most at home.
The tradition at the other end of my spectrum is the social justice tradition.
I’m not happy about this. I even experience some shame about it. After all, social justice is important. It is ‘in’. So I feel some tension in being ‘out’. Read my reflection Serve the City over at Conversations.
27/04/12
iningServe the City
April's theme at the Conversations blog is 'Streams of the Faith', inspired by Richard Foster's work at Renovaré. We were asked to reflect upon our own experience within the six streams.
I gobbled up Richard Foster’s Streams of Living Water soon after it was published. His work gave me a way to name (and appreciate) the various influences which have formed my Christian experience, and affirmed my finding my true home in the contemplative tradition. I have loved learning and growing in this tradition, and it has been a delight to pass along to others what I’ve gained. When my church decided to do a teaching series on the streams of the Christian faith, preaching on the prayer-filled life was natural for me. It’s where I am most at home.
The tradition at the other end of my spectrum is the social justice tradition.
I’m not happy about this. I even experience some shame about it. After all, social justice is important. It is ‘in’. So I feel some tension in being ‘out’. Read my reflection Serve the City over at Conversations.
27/04/12
Pondering Rembrandt's Masterwork
March's theme at the Conversations blog is 'visio divina'. Just as in 'lectio divina' we ponder a sacred text to receive God's word to us today, In 'visio divina' we stop before an artwork to allow it to speak something of the holy to us. Rembrandt's masterwork Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee was my choice. Read my reflection In the Storm over at Conversations.
27/03/12
Toward Jerusalem: reflections for Lent
It's only for the past few years that I've celebrated Lent. I didn't grow up in a liturgical tradition, and my earliest memory of this season is wondering why my Anglican friends would load themselves up with pancakes on one early spring Tuesday and then, the following day, come to school with a cross of ashes on their foreheads.
The beauty of the symbolism doesn't go over my head any more. In fact, as I've endeavored to live more contemplatively, I've made a full about face.
Now I love Lent! Being intentional in my journey toward Good Friday allows me to arrive at the celebration of Christ's atonement prepared and ready. By giving the meaning and symbolism time to settle in my soul, I'm able to engage fully in Christianity's most sacred day.
The Lenten practice that has helped the most is to journey with Jesus through the gospels as he makes his way toward Jerusalem. Each day throughout Lent I will share a reflective thought from the gospels, something that you can take and reflect more upon as you choose. I invite you to journey along with me and, more importantly, with Jesus as we travel with him Toward Jerusalem. The posts with appear weekly on this site and daily on my Facebook page.
13/02/12
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