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“He is around thirty pounds, with shaggy gray hair, a spotted tongue, his name is Barnaby, and I have had him for about fifteen years,” I say into the phone. “Yep, we definitely have your dog,” says the other person on the other end of the line.
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Something has happened. Something is different.
Is it my shoulders? Well...they don’t feel so heavy, hmm.
My jaw...it has been so tight lately... why, it has released, and I can move it all about!
And my chest...oh how I can breathe in so fully!
Over the past month, as I have walked across Spain on the Camino Francais, I have had a fun friend who has journeyed with me, Hootie the Hoot-Owl.
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Day 10: The temperature is just a few degrees above freezing and it rains on and off throughout the day. Sore leg muscles and blisters make this day’s walk more difficult but step by solitary step I progress.
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Crossroads
It often feels as though I am on a diving board
Up above the clouds
Teetering on the edge
One foot on the board
And the other foot off
On September 19th, Anam Cara, Missional Wisdom’s missional spiritual direction program, started its second year of training spiritual directors.
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It feels as though our ancestors
Took our beloved Earth
Placed it on top of a mountain
And pushed it over an edge
Maundy Thursday Meditation
As we have journeyed through lent together, we have only seen the backs of people’s heads in our images. Their faces have been left unseen by us. They have walked on away from us into the unknown, leaving us to ponder and ask, “Who are they? Where are they going? What are their names? What might it be like to see their face?”
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To wrestle is to claim our place in God’s creation,
Because all of God’s creation wrestles...
The seed with the earth
The butterfly with the cocoon
The child with the parent
This past summer, I left my beloved community at the Bonhoeffer House to move to Wichita, Kansas. As I said goodbye to my friends and family to go to a new place, I noticed a recurring question rising up within me, “Will I be able to make any friends in this new place?” After years of having a strong community around me, I was afraid that I would be alone and lonely…Why is it that we are afraid of being alone?
These days, everyone seems to say...
“Take care of yourself, your body, mind, and spirit.”
Everywhere I go, I seem to hear...
“It is necessary to know yourself and who you are.”
Gurus, counselors, and life coaches all seem to proclaim...
“Do what you need to do to take care of you”
From the Reports from the Spiritual Frontier website:
Join us for a conversation with Neighborhood Animator and Iconographer Ryan Klinck, of the Missional Wisdom Foundation and SOCE Life, as he shares what it means to encounter unlikely saints in the people around us. Hear him share about how a dream sent him to Mexico when he was a young adult, the hard practice of living in intentional community, how our neighbors and enemies can serve as mirrors, and about his collaborative art projects with his friends who are homeless, called “The Saints of Bonhoeffer House.”
We at the Neighboring Movement recently reached a huge milestone. Our first cohort successfully finished a program we developed called the Good Neighbor Experiment.
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