PASTORFROGGE
  • Home
  • About
  • Sermons
  • Worship Help
  • Contact
  • Daily Devotionals
  • Sign Up Devotionals

Ecclesiological Etchings

11-04-21

11/4/2021

0 Comments

 

ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHING
November 4, 2021

This past Tuesday, I shared at staff meeting a quote from Father Richard Rohr (from his Daily Meditation on July 7, 2016). He wrote:

We keep praying that our illusions will fall away. God erodes them from many sides, hoping they will fall. But we often remain trapped in what we call normalcy – “the way things are.” Life then revolves around problem-solving, fixing, explaining, and taking sides with winners and losers. It can be a pretty circular and even nonsensical existence.

To get out of this unending cycle, we have to allow ourselves to be drawn into sacred space, into liminality. All transformation takes place here. We have to allow ourselves to be drawn out of “business as usual” and remain patiently on the “threshold” ( limen, in Latin) where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown.

This resonated with me as I have a real bad habit of trying to push past those places “in-between” where nothing appears to be happening, but in fact, a lot is happening. It may not be measurable in the traditional ways of measuring, but I think about my grandmother baking pies. If I got up early enough, I would see the kitchen lined with ingredients, different utensils, pie plates (pie birds) and a whole host of things I didn’t know how they might be used. By the time I usually got up, the pies were in the oven and the kitchen was now a prep area for lunch. I usually saw only the final product without understanding the full extend of work involved. Of course, my grandmother had the specific goal of pies. In threshold moments along the faith journey, the goal – at least from our vantage point – is vague at best. We might speak of God’s dream, but the specifics are unknown. Maybe the “in-between” time is like God’s kitchen where God’s final product is difficult for us to imagine with the many ingredient on the counter unassembled.

Gracious God, I trust you to always be at work within me and around me for the sake of your vision. Even when the space I find myself appears to be on a pause, you are never on a break from loving and shaping me for the sake of your kingdom. Amen.





via WordPress https://ift.tt/3wf2Y8s
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Rev. Bruce Frogge
    Sr. Minister
    Cypress Creek
    ​Christian Church

    Archives

    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019

    RSS Feed

  • Home
  • About
  • Sermons
  • Worship Help
  • Contact
  • Daily Devotionals
  • Sign Up Devotionals