Sublime

It’s not a proper form of humility to say, “I’m nothing compared to others.” Such a form of humility will never lead us into resonance but only into counting and comparing, into resentment and alienation, pushing us from the world and our neighbor in it.

A congregation that carries children, as Meredith’s does, is a life-community, a community not hunting resources but encountering resonance. This congregation’s life is not in its innovation but in its encounter with the concrete others whom it ministers to and is ministered by.

Regularly throughout conversation in Gaelic, there is explicit recognition that the divine is present in others.

He’s an architect’s architect; he told me he’s interested in how buildings can help do the metaphysical work of what the philosopher Martin Heidegger called true dwelling—a social triad made of people, one to another and in their environments.

doing your participants the honor of being convened for a reason.

Yet, unable to circumvent the blockage and walk through this door, we are more attuned than ever, in the age of authenticity, to our feelings and individual expressions. Therefore, we can’t help feeling the cross-pressure, sensing an echo of lost transcendence we try to ignore. We have to ignore it because it has been negated. But in the oddest way

Celticity is an initiation, a coupling of my soul-self with the land and the elements and with the web that meshes, coils and weaves it and us all together. It’s both a reverence and a sense of responsibility.

But in the household of ministry, giftedness and prodigy should not be confused. Giftedness is not necessarily correlated with talent but rather is the discovery that your being is a gift that can impact the being of others.