Cultivating connection requires both patience and perseverance, a willingness to settle in and keep showing up.
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Have we watered down communion?
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A short and simple list for cultivating connection when it all feels awkward or exhausting.
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How can we live authentically without the pressure to reveal all to all?
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The soul craves deep connection, but getting there isn’t always straightforward.
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Communication is about much more than the words we use.
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Perception is a tricky thing. With only two eyes on the front of our heads, our lens on the world is limited—skewed to a very slim slice of reality.
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To push past all that stands to divide us and the watered-down community we’ve come to accept, “life together” has to be more than a party line. Our souls ache for more.
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How often do we suppress our desires to know and to be known? We ache for community but stay safe with surface relationships. But what if that longing to be near is trying to tell us something? And what if we paid attention?
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A list of additional resources for moving toward authentic, daily relationship with God and with people.
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“YOU CAN’T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER” Pursuing presence with God and with people is not mutually exclusive. We need them both.
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“COMMUNION WITH GOD” Humanity didn’t need a quick fix, but a sacred communion with the Divine.
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“INTENTIONALITY” We are people in need of presence, of proximity to both God and to each other. And right now, in the age of pandemic, none of our usual substitutes are working.
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“A STARTING POINT” I don’t pretend to have answers, not a pill to dull the pain produced by our inability to even breathe the same air. But I’m ready to ask the questions…
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Together may we stand in the gaps for those who are hurting, who are raw and ravaged and in need of grace.
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Alone, we can know Him only in part, only see the world in black and white. […] The prismatic display of His glory can only be revealed when we come together, when we choose to love and to link arms during life’s passing storms.
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I thought we were doing a good job settling into our new community—until one Friday when I found myself very alone.
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I’d heard of this Enneagram thing through a few friends, but all the talk about numbers seemed more like advanced math than a source of personal development. And if you know anything about me, I don’t do the numbers.
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I will never lose what I learned at the table: To gather regularly. To invite people with varying opinions and stories and perspectives into my life and into my home.
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