Loading...We are traveling together. Roaming, if you will. So I invite you to roam with me as we explore what God is creating...
I feel like these past few years have opened up new ways of being. The pandemic, as awful as it is, has forced us to recognize that it is okay to change. To try something new. To risk and explore and discern. To say "no" and "yes" and "I don't know" and to wrestle with how all those responses feel.
We aren't the same people we were before the pandemic. The Church (big "C" -- more on a global level, or at the minimum, a denominational level) is recognizing that maybe, just maybe, we have been clinging to rituals, behaviors, expectations, and roles that may not be enough to lead us to a deeper relationship with all those things we call holy.
We have stood at the edge of the unknown during this time, teetering, rocking on our toes and heels, wondering and maybe waiting, or perhaps, looking for approval, to try something different -- because, really, we were forced to "do church" in new, exciting, challenging, and sometimes angsty ways. (How hard was it to adapt to on-line church?)
Some took the leap, anxious to see how change would impact their faith; and others turned back, not quite ready to try something new. Some are still teetering on that edge, waiting to see which way the wind will blow.
It's exciting. It's risky. It's tantalizing and terrifying. And we might wonder, "Where is God in this?"
I think the Holy Trinity might be found like this:
+++The Holy Spirit is blowing with an electrifying air of invitation to experience the ever-present, loving God in, perhaps, unexpected and unfamiliar ways.
+++Jesus is fervently beckoning anyone who will listen to join the throng of his followers to bring loving justice, equity, and community to a hungry-for-God world.
+++God continues to create clean hearts, open minds, and giving, loving hands, all to draw us nearer and nearer to Godself.
I trust that our Holy One is with us as we navigate, discern, stop, and go.
Faithfully,
Rev. Debbie+
