Do you remember what it felt like to optimistically make plans? To dream? How hard…
Category: Reflections
Its New Year’s Eve. I’ve just returned from doing the grocery shopping. While wandering through Aldi, I’ve had Rage Against the Machine blasting through my earbuds… enjoying the bubble of space it provides from the hordes of humanity all trying to get a great deal on bananas…
And as I leave, Renegades comes on, and it seems apropos for New Year’s, so I thought I would collect my thoughts and share them…
So, Renegades goes like this:
Magdalena: tall tower strong against adversity Despite chance and cruel circumstance you persevered as someone…
I’m so exhausted. And I feel like I ought to be seeking the veriditas that Hildegard speaks of… that I believe in… that I’m hungry for. Its that greening, that sense of growth and anticipation of new things… its optimism and deliberately moving through the world seeking the small, green glimpses of life that is the evidence of Spirit-nurturing.
I am down at Surrender 19: Interwoven.
Its an amazing time of creatively thinking theologically about justice, faith, intersectionality and hope.
I painted some art and wrote some words and thought I’d put them here:
I realised tonight that I have lived much of my life – too much of my life – with Fear as my companion. But tonight, as I slipped out of the door of my slumbering household, with my restless dog and my own weary bones, into the silky black coolness of the night… I turned to check, but my constant companion was gone.