Greetings!
Thanksgiving Greetings!
I hope that you and your family are enjoying a good Thanksgiving; that you’ve had time to reflect on the ways God has blessed you, and that you have been able to gather together with family (given and chosen) to celebrate the good and to support one another through the bad.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of celebration because it’s a moment when the rest of the society around us takes a step back from busyness to engage in the practice of giving thanks. This is a practice that is essential to our Christian living. So, for this moment, we are united with all communities around us and our spiritual practices seem to fit in with the values of the wider world.
But is it possible for us to remain comfortably aligned with the world around us? In his parables about the coming kingdom of heaven, Jesus outlines some ways in which we’re called to be different from the people around us---or at least a little out of step with their values. Come join us for this final week of thinking about these stories, and about how we might be called to live according to a different way.
Your companion in this different way,
Hardy