Hello Internets! Just wanted to drop a quick note that I have a blog post up on the Experience MHGS website. Check it out when you get a chance. Peace and Blessings to you all.
This week we finish off our dialogue on "Who is Poor?" As I take some time to reflect on the past few weeks I'm reminded of who we are, who we hope to be, our role in all of this, the price we must pay, etc. All of which leads me back to the even larger idea of grace.
Sometimes I think that for far too many of us our understanding of grace is much too basic. Somehow grace has become a lesson learned and now we've moved passed that. No one likes to consider themselves as lacking grace but think about those places of need that you could never even imagine yourself going to. Or that person who has hurt and wronged you more deeply than you would ever give them the satisfaction of knowing. How much grace are you able, no willing, to give? Look at those limits and maybe we'll see how much further Christ calls us to go.
The thing about grace is maybe it is not this lesson learned but rather a lifelong process of it learning us. Many of us think of grace and associate it with warm fuzzies but grace more often than not is terrifying. Grace manages to bring us to the plot in our lives (the harshest of realities this world has to offer) and our story only really begins when we decide to act. But the problem lies in the fact that like Noah, the grace we are called to live out in those places can be too much and too big.
I don't have any answers on how to overcome this, no well thought out plans on how to get us there. But what I do know is that as our community continues to fumble its way with becoming a voice of grace, we can never stop this dialogue. And maybe somehow that as we sleep on each lesson learned, pulling as much as we can from it, our voice will grow to look more grace-like.
Hello Gentle Viewers,
I'm sitting here on a friend's couch, with my friend's computer, and I realize just how long I've been silent on this Vox. It's not that I have forgotten about it, but it's more that I haven't written... anything... for a while. Maybe it is the fact that I've been so busy there hasn't been space and time for the words to flow from my pen. Regardless, its been a long dry spell.
As I sit here nursing a Shiner, I just wanted to let you know that I'm still here. Thoughts and dialogue still run through my head, and in time they'll find their way back to my Vox. So until then rest easy...
