By Bob Carey
A few things to think about as we move forward in shaping the kind of programs that will extend the ministry of the Cathedral and provide space and time for the reflection and the periods of quiet and renewal that we all need in a society of distraction.
We tend to think of activity as our doing something--marching, petitioning, making calls, writing letters--about some issue that is not necessarily part of our immediate and daily routines, but that is something
we care about. Those routines and the issues that are "out there" seem,
at times, to move on different tracks.
But the world comes at us in a variety of ways, and if you look at the coffee in your cup in the morning, or the soap that you use to do the laundry, or the flowers that you gave or got for Mothers Day and ask:
Where did these come from? Who made these and under what conditions? Is there something about this product or that item that I should know about?
These questions have a way of making our lives and those issues "out there"
come together. Maybe you will write, call, petition, march. But then again, maybe if you know and act and buy different coffee, other flowers, different detergents, you will have done as much--maybe more.
We want to help create an environment, a place, a way of being a congregation that allows for lots of different activities and ways of being involved and the possibility of being a part of an on-going exploration about how we should be a community and in touch with the larger one to which we are joined.
A few things to think about as we move forward in shaping the kind of programs that will extend the ministry of the Cathedral and provide space and time for the reflection and the periods of quiet and renewal that we all need in a society of distraction.
We tend to think of activity as our doing something--marching, petitioning, making calls, writing letters--about some issue that is not necessarily part of our immediate and daily routines, but that is something
we care about. Those routines and the issues that are "out there" seem,
at times, to move on different tracks.
But the world comes at us in a variety of ways, and if you look at the coffee in your cup in the morning, or the soap that you use to do the laundry, or the flowers that you gave or got for Mothers Day and ask:
Where did these come from? Who made these and under what conditions? Is there something about this product or that item that I should know about?
These questions have a way of making our lives and those issues "out there"
come together. Maybe you will write, call, petition, march. But then again, maybe if you know and act and buy different coffee, other flowers, different detergents, you will have done as much--maybe more.
We want to help create an environment, a place, a way of being a congregation that allows for lots of different activities and ways of being involved and the possibility of being a part of an on-going exploration about how we should be a community and in touch with the larger one to which we are joined.
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