Sunday Video and Readings
As humans, we often hold a very short view of things. We've been trained this way by television dramas where the problems of the world find a solution within 45 minutes. Our smartphones give us all the information we look for in an instant. We've come to expect everything to happen in the space of a click, but when we drop our electronics for a moment and walk out into the open air, we see a very different world from the one portrayed in cyberspace. For example, we would not expect to cultivate the ground, plant a corn seed, and go back the following day and find an ear of corn.
In our discussions this month around the book Do I Stay Christian?, we have come face to face with the realization that the seeds of change that we are planting relative to our religious/spiritual journey are going to be harvested in future generations. Reformations unfold over centuries; our lives evolve over decades. The "fixes" we seek in the church will not happen tomorrow.
We must cultivate the ground, plant the seeds, water, weed, tend, and know that the harvest will come to future generations. Is it a tall order to expect ourselves to be content with this state of affairs? Just ask any farmer who has spent a lifetime sowing and reaping, and he will tell you not only of his joy in a bountiful harvest, but of his deep satisfaction with the process of getting there. In the words of the apostle, "contentment is a means of great gain."
We invite you to water the seedlings and find some beauty in the experience of waiting.
Peace,
David
In our discussions this month around the book Do I Stay Christian?, we have come face to face with the realization that the seeds of change that we are planting relative to our religious/spiritual journey are going to be harvested in future generations. Reformations unfold over centuries; our lives evolve over decades. The "fixes" we seek in the church will not happen tomorrow.
We must cultivate the ground, plant the seeds, water, weed, tend, and know that the harvest will come to future generations. Is it a tall order to expect ourselves to be content with this state of affairs? Just ask any farmer who has spent a lifetime sowing and reaping, and he will tell you not only of his joy in a bountiful harvest, but of his deep satisfaction with the process of getting there. In the words of the apostle, "contentment is a means of great gain."
We invite you to water the seedlings and find some beauty in the experience of waiting.
Peace,
David
Sunday Video
September 25, 2022
September 25, 2022
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