I can't hear the phrase "dark night of the soul" without thinking about Batman. Thank you for sharing another powerful personal story. I share your skepticism of the dominant story we tell ourselves in our privileged church communities and your trust in people coming together to reckon with our relationships to it when it fails us. I see many people who have been given the seed of faith through family and culture (myself included) go on to think what what we possess makes our individual values the only matter in season under heaven rather than planting that seed and tending what emerges from the ground. I see over and over again the desire to exclude dominating the desire to transcend. We're getting ready to plant our spring garden, though. That usually helps put things back into perspective for me.
A time to plant and a time to sow. I keep intending to pick up gardening myself, knowing how much wisdom it gifts us. I’m afraid my efforts thus far stress the “time to die” side of things a bit too heavily.
I can't hear the phrase "dark night of the soul" without thinking about Batman. Thank you for sharing another powerful personal story. I share your skepticism of the dominant story we tell ourselves in our privileged church communities and your trust in people coming together to reckon with our relationships to it when it fails us. I see many people who have been given the seed of faith through family and culture (myself included) go on to think what what we possess makes our individual values the only matter in season under heaven rather than planting that seed and tending what emerges from the ground. I see over and over again the desire to exclude dominating the desire to transcend. We're getting ready to plant our spring garden, though. That usually helps put things back into perspective for me.
A time to plant and a time to sow. I keep intending to pick up gardening myself, knowing how much wisdom it gifts us. I’m afraid my efforts thus far stress the “time to die” side of things a bit too heavily.
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