Hello friends! I hope this finds you fully engaged where you find yourself these days……engaged in the work of changing the world. I know that sounds grandiose but it is true…..Listen to these words from Frederick Buechner; “There are all kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of society, say, or the Superego, or Self-Interest. By and large a good rule for finding out is this. The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you’ve presumably met requirement (a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you’ve missed requirement (b). On the other hand, if your work is being a doctor in a leper colony, you have probably met requirement (b), but if most of the time you’re bored and depressed by it, the chances are you have not only bypassed (a) but probably aren’t healing your patients either. The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” I also hope you are enjoying the “rhythm of stopping and finding rest” so that the beauty and abundance of God’s creation…..(yum! Strawberry season in
Prophets
I'm finding myself in a story
larger than any I ever dreamed
living alongside heroes
I have never seen
I've joined on the path
of those whose faith
has gone before
Men and women, a countless score
These characters are living
with words to say
that echo back
a millennium or more
Yet I am also learning
I have another role to fill
It is my voice, used for another
whose story I must tell
To the generations that follow
that they must truly hear
the message that has never changed
"The Kingdom of God is near."