"Clean the Windows", so that others may see in to our lives and see a Community that is different, that is holy. And so that we look outwards into the wider world, and God's call.
It strikes me today how much Bishop Stephen's words in his Pentecost letter, say something very similar. "[W]e need to be a people of prayer. We need to let our relationship with God in Christ shape our lives so that the way we live day to day is distinctively Christian. This isn't easy. We live in a beguiling and seductive world. Often our lives seem indistinguishable from everyone else's. We need to let the faith we celebrate on Sunday overflow into the lives we live on Monday".
This also links into our planned focus for the Autumn on onwards, seeking to learn how to 'mentor' one another in the Christian lives. This will help us get in Good Shape. In the new year we are looking towards studying a course called "Shape'. This helps us all think about God's call to us - what Shape we should be, in all of life.
May our Lord be guiding us. This is his work; but we are worker's together with him in his kingdom.
And a Thought for the Day
"I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of miracle is here, among us" (quoted in More on Marilynne Robinson by Roger Kimball)
And a Thought for the Day
"I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of miracle is here, among us" (quoted in More on Marilynne Robinson by Roger Kimball)
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