Education and formation of Christian Disciples is a thing close to my heart, so I'm pleased to see it gets a mention today. I've thought a lot about how we learn through positive experiences (celebrating the eucharist together, exploring God's word) but today I've been challenged to consider how "wilderness" (painful, difficult) times can also be deeply formative, perhaps even more so. But I think Bp Andrew's description of worship is too narrow -surely worship is not just lifting our eyes up (or it might become escapism) but it's also being able to value the presence of God in the messy, chaotic experiences of life.
The message I took from today's reading is the comment about regular worship, the ordinary and routine as well as the spontaneous and exuberant helping us to put the "has done" and the "will do" together. It is so easy to listen to the readings as something that happened in the past and not to pick up the message about the future.
The book has certainly captured my imagination. I enjoyed the quote from Fiddler on the Roof "We are yur chosen people. But, once in a while, can't you choose someone else?"
If I do nothing else this Lent I have at least been able to blog!!!
Education and formation of Christian Disciples is a thing close to my heart, so I'm pleased to see it gets a mention today. I've thought a lot about how we learn through positive experiences (celebrating the eucharist together, exploring God's word) but today I've been challenged to consider how "wilderness" (painful, difficult) times can also be deeply formative, perhaps even more so. But I think Bp Andrew's description of worship is too narrow -surely worship is not just lifting our eyes up (or it might become escapism) but it's also being able to value the presence of God in the messy, chaotic experiences of life.
ReplyDeleteThe message I took from today's reading is the comment about regular worship, the ordinary and routine as well as the spontaneous and exuberant helping us to put the "has done" and the "will do" together. It is so easy to listen to the readings as something that happened in the past and not to pick up the message about the future.
ReplyDeleteThe book has certainly captured my imagination. I enjoyed the quote from Fiddler on the Roof "We are yur chosen people. But, once in a while, can't you choose someone else?"
If I do nothing else this Lent I have at least been able to blog!!!