Our meeting times aren't always or even often spectacular. If we tried to make them that way, it would be rather fake anyway, so no point. And thinking that they have to be something like that every time we meet is against the grain of our philosophy of community. It would cut against the "long-haul" and the "more than a meeting" mentality that we're trying to foster in one another. We're not about getting everything done in the once a week meeting. It can't be done - was never meant to be done - so we don't try to do it. Our formation into the image of Christ is a wholisitc thing that happens all the time, by many means. We're not about "quick-fixes" either. Things don't generally work that way in the spiritual life. We are in process. It's a long haul thing, not an instantaneous fixer-upper.

I hope all that makes some sense. We live as community. We go along doing what we know to do. We listen and evolve as we need to. God transforms us along the way.

| posted by + Alan | 1:57 PM | |