“God created us in freedom to be his intimate allies, and he will not give up on us. He seeks his allies still. Not religion. Not good church people. Lovers. Allies. Friends of the deepest sort.”
JOhn eldredGE, EPIC: THE STORY GOD IS TELLING (tHOMAS NELSON 2004), P. 66
“Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and obeys them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a [far-sighted, practical, and sensible] man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and yet could not shake it, because it had been securely built and founded on the rock.”
Luke 6:47-48 (AMP)
Welcome to this blog. It will be a little bit of a work in progress. Generally, it is geared towards sharing encouragement, perspective, and practical steps, geared towards an audience of people of faith. I am coming from a background that includes environmental work and much of it will share about food, water, wilderness, and/or climate change may matter to those who have not been engaged or are newly interested in what I may be talking about – and also how it fits with their own desire to live out their values. I will also share testimonies of people who are doing things that are unique or are serving in the community out of a word or vision with which they are running.
It may be quote heavy at first (fair warning from the start out here). I’m aiming to share things without falling into the challenge with which any reader who has done choreography will likely sympathize – wanting to put all the things that are interesting and exciting or you learned after a while in, when it needs to be simpler and streamlined to flow. But I don’t want to get so stuck trying to figure out what it “should” be that it takes away from sharing at all.
In the interest of candor, the title is from Desert Solitaire by Edward Abby and stood out to me when I was in college. People who are exploring or searching may still be interested in the perspective on the blog and are certainly welcome to read it.
“Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.”
Matthew 10:39 (NIV)