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Meditation Monday – The Fire of Inclusive Love

by Christine Sine
written by Christine Sine

by Christine Sine

I was one of 2 billion people around the world who watched the wedding celebrations of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday. Like many I tuned in to enjoy the spectacle of medieval pageantry, archaic customs and pretty hats and heard instead a message of God’s inclusive love. If you haven’t listened to Michael Curry’s sermon yet it is well worth listening to and meditating on.

On Sunday, I celebrated Pentecost, that awe inspiring day of joy and passion that proclaims the coming of the Holy Spirit. Here too we heard the message of inclusive love. Under God’s banner there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, slave or free. All are one in Christ. In God’s kingdom there are no illegal aliens, no undocumented workers, no abandoned or despised ones. In all our diversity of culture, language and creed we are welcomed into the family of God.

Both these events were incredible celebrations of hope and promise. The power of love can transform the world and make all things new.

Pentecost reminds us that God brings us together in diversity and uniqueness to break down barriers of prejudice, race and class and become one new family. The royal wedding gave us a glimpse of this as it brought together a remarkable couple across what once would have been insurmountable barriers of race, culture and prejudice.

Is This A Move of God?

In the last few months I have lived under a cloud of discouragement and doubt wondering what has happened to the power of God. We seem to live in a world of increasing racism, violence and environmental degradation. We continue to build walls not bridges. The loving unity God calls us to seems further away than ever.

Yet this weekend I caught a glimpse of something new that God is doing. That an African American woman could marry into the British royal family sends a powerful message. That one of the charities people were invited to support focuses on menstrual hygiene in India is remarkable. That the couple are concerned enough about sustainability to design beautiful floral displays that use local and seasonal flowers and greenery is remarkable. That Prince Harry has finally come out to talk about his own mental health crisis and his concern for the disabled is heartwarming. Change is possible, barriers of race, gender prejudice, mental health and pollution can be overcome.

I do believe God is doing something new.  We have already seen it in Black Lives Matter and the Me Too movements. We have seen it in the young people standing up for gun reform and an end to school violence.

God Does Not Build Walls

This weekend reminded me that borders and walls designed to keep people out are created by humankind not by God. It is easy for all of us to lose sight of God’s passion for a world reunited in love and mutual care. It is easy to lose sight of God’s delight in diversity. It is much easier to judge than to include.

Not surprising really. Pentecostal fire comes with a price. To be transformed by the Holy Spirit we must die to anything that prevents us becoming united to each other in love. And that of course means dying to prejudices – prejudices against the royalty who have enslaved and impoverished many in the past, prejudices against those of different races, sexual persuasion  or religious creeds, prejudices against those who suffer from mental illness – all these must die if we are to find the unity God asks of us.

I feel that this new royal couple has brought us one step closer to the unity God desires of us. Yes I know they are far from perfect and if we want to we can criticize much of who they are and what they stand for or we can stand with them for a world changed and made new.

The question in my own heart is What can I do to join this movement towards love? What can I do to bring us one step closer to the unity God desires of us? I hope that the same questions are stirring in your heart.

 

 

 

May 21, 2018 0 comments
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Let’s Ponder the Holy Spirit on Pentecost

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

by Lynne Baab,

On Pentecost, we remember the coming of the Holy Spirit to the people gathered in Jerusalem for the Pentecost festival. You can read about it in Acts 2. Almost two millennia after Pentecost, we benefit every day from the presence of the Holy Spirit with us.

One of my seminary professor called the Holy Spirit the “shy” member of the Trinity. This professor was referring to the fact that the Holy Spirit’s role is to bring glory to the Father and the Son. Thus the Holy Spirit is the least visible person of the Trinity.

I invite you to ponder with me the role of the Holy Spirit in various Christian spiritual practices, to shine some light on this “shy” person in the Trinity.

Bible reading and meditation. The Holy Spirit opens our eyes and ears so we can see God more clearly through the words on the pages of the Bible. The Spirit also helps us apply the passage to our lives, helping us see the relevance of the words to our exact setting and context.

Intercessory prayer. The Holy Spirit guides us to pray for the things God values, giving us eyes to see God’s priorities and purposes. The Spirit helps us to see the places God is working so we can join our prayers with God’s current activity and priorities. In addition, the Spirit brings people to mind who need our prayers and helps us remember specific situations where God’s presence is needed.

Prayers of confession. The Holy Spirit brings to mind our sins and shortcomings, and reminds us of God’s forgiveness when we confess our sins.

Praise of praise and thankfulness. The Holy Spirit helps us see God’s gifts in our daily life and reminds us of the big picture of God’s creation and redemption of the world.

Prayers of lament. The Holy Spirit grieves over the brokenness of the world and invites us into that grief and sorrow.

Various forms of silent prayer. The Holy Spirit speaks to us in silence, bringing to mind truths about God and speaking that truth into our situations.

Worship. All that I’ve mentioned above illustrates how the Holy Spirit enables us to engage in worship, both alone and with others.

Fasting. The Holy Spirit gives us guidance of when to fast, what to fast from, strength and endurance during the fast, and guidance in what to pray for during the fast.

Sabbath keeping. The Holy Spirit calls us into rest, reassuring us that God is keeping the world going even when we are not participating. The Spirit gives peace and the ability to trust into God’s hands the things we could be doing but aren’t.

Communal spiritual practices. The Holy Spirit draws people together and provides love for one another. The Spirit guides and empowers groups of people as well as individuals.

Gordon Fee wrote a wonderful book about the Holy Spirit called God’s Empowering Presence. For Pentecost this year, I invite you to ponder that title. The Holy Spirit is God’s presence with us. What does God do in us? Empower us to hear God’s voice, receive God’s direction, persevere in following that direction, and rest in God’s goodness and grace. The Holy Spirit is God present with us in dozens of ways that empower us.

I’ve listed some of the ways God, through the Holy Spirit, is present with us and empowers us as we engage in spiritual practices. I’m sure you can think of more ways.

Jesus says to his disciples in the Upper Room, the night he was betrayed: “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you” (John 16:13, 14, NRSV).

A prayer related to the Holy Spirit from the Book of Common Prayer: “O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

May 20, 2018 0 comments
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Sacred Saturday: Waiting on the Holy Spirit

by Lilly Lewin
written by Lilly Lewin

by Lilly Lewin

Waiting on the Holy Spirit.

I often say that I would have missed Pentecost.
I would have missed the promised Gift of the Spirit, God’s power and light that Jesus told his followers he would give them.
Why?
BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE TO WAIT!
I am really bad at waiting!

Jesus gives his followers a mission to Go into ALL the World and make disciples!
Tell AND show people all over the place about the LOVE of God in JESUS.
That’s amazing! That’s a mission I want to participate in! That gets me motivated.
But Jesus says WAIT…STAY in Jerusalem and wait for the Gift I will give you!

I am Not so good at STAYING and WAITING.
How about you?
Too often, I have found myself impatient with God’s timing and I get antsy.
I pray for wisdom and direction, but too often, I run ahead and try to do things on my own.

I’m not sure the disciples liked waiting either. But, they had the honor of hanging out with Jesus over time. They’d now witnessed his death, resurrection, and his ascension so they were probably ok with being surprised by whatever Jesus asked them to do, or not do.

So they stayed in Jerusalem, praying and doing life together in the upper room where so many marvelous things had happened.

Am I willing to stay still and wait?
Am I willing to wait on God’s timing for things rather than my own?
Can I be willing to be willing?

Today is the day before we celebrate Pentecost.
The day before the Gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out.
Maybe you too are in that “DAY BEFORE” season.
That season of wondering and waiting on what God is going to do.
That day, that season of uncertainty….about what’s next, about when God will act, about what God is up to in your life. Know that God is with you in this. Know that Jesus hasn’t forgotten you!

On this day before Pentecost, I am announcing to myself and to Jesus that I am willing to be willing. I am willing to wait on the Gift. I am willing to understand that today is all I have. Today is a gift from Jesus to me. What can I do to love more today? What can I do to receive God’s love in my life today? And what can I do to bring love and joy to my world today, right now? Not running ahead, not wishing I was somewhere else, but willing to just be present in today.
Even in the waiting! Even in the Day Before!


ACTION: What can help you receive the gift of the Spirit during Pentecost this year?
I often use ceiling fans or window fans as reminders of the Holy Spirit. When I see a fan, I ask for God’s Spirit to blow over me and fill me again.
I do this with the wind too! I love to go outside and just let the wind blow over me. To know that I’m not in control of this, God is!

Do you have a symbol that represents the Holy Spirit to you? What is it? Or what might you choose it to be for Pentecost this year? One year I chose this red bowl from the Cincinnati Art Museum (way before I had the image of enough from my Freerange Friday post) This year it’s a Jar of Honey. Jesus is reminding me that he is Good and I need to live in his love and sweetness.

I’d love to hear what symbols help you connect with the Holy Spirit.

Happy Pentecost to you!

May 19, 2018 0 comments
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Coming back to earth

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

By Talitha Fraser —

Jon Cornford’s recent publication Coming Back to Earth: Essays on Church, Climate Change, Cities, Agriculture and Eating offers ideas confronting, but necessary, to consume if we are to respond as disciples to the challenges of our time such as:  “climate change; species extinction; resource depletion; pressure on the global food system; widening international tensions and conflicts; economic instability and fragility; persisting poverty and economic exploitation…” (p.9).

Part of what is provoking and perceptive about Cornford’s work is the requirement to look critically at Christianity and the personal practice of our faith. There is seemingly a crisis of confidence amongst Christians about whether the “Good News” really has any good news to offer – Constantine developing the Christian Empire, the Reformation that made our faith individual rather than relying on Church, the establishment of capitalism and its model of accumulation, and the age Enlightenment that created self-sufficiency from God, leaves followers wondering about religion’s relevance (p.22-27). How might this be reclaimed and animated to speak to our minds and hearts, and to our times?

There can be an implied meaning to the word “sustainability” that is about maintaining a status quo, keeping things chugging along, but Cornford extends an invitation to understand our relationship to created order and land differently.  We have been given a vocation (Gen 2) ‘to work (for) it and keep it’ – here “keep” is the same usage as “the Lord bless you and keep you”. We have an ongoing creative role to play in relationship to and with the land – to observe and serve it.

Counter to modern anthropocentric thinking, Cornford asks of us: What does it mean for us to live human life within economic limits? The Bible has a lot to say about law relating to property, land, animals, Sabbath, harvest and reaping. What responsibility, and what power, do we have to respond to the needs of our world?  What are the ways we might consume less and consume smart? Buy secondhand, recyclable or renewable products, repurpose what you have, buy in bulk where you can to reduce single-use packaging… these are not new ideas. What is a new idea is the motivation.  Climate change isn’t going to be cured by everyone recycling – especially when China isn’t buying it off Australia anymore.   Because that 619,000 tonnes of materials per annum used to be worth $523 million to our economy and now it has no value and we have no where to put it but landfill.  

See an illustration of the “four levels of thinking” below (Fig.11 WWF Living Planet Report (2016) , adapted from Maani and Cavana (2007) “showing that events or symptoms are only the tip of the iceberg in the overall dynamics of a system. Meanwhile the underlying determinants of the system’s behaviour are less apparent. The deeper we go below the surface events, the closer we get toward “root causes”. In this way we might come to understand that China not taking our recycling [event] is the good news.  In fact, it’s great news because it puts the responsibility for managing our waste back on Australia and makes us think about ways to manage and address that by requiring us to look at some of our other levels of thinking.

There are systemic issues that aren’t going to be addressed in this political climate. The system is broken.  The system will not change until people start changing. The challenge is to start acting in faith that change will come and to believe that we can participate in and take responsibility for that. No matter how long later or even whether others follow suit or not.

We pay so little for what we buy new that there is no incentive to re-use or repair it. We need a cohort of people to take the environmental crises seriously and create the demand for items made from recycled materials. The process costs of making items from recycled materials needs to come down and a larger market needs to be developed to compete with new-made. We need to be lobbying for this market to be subsidised or an appropriate ‘tax’ to be paid on new-material items.

It is clear to environmentalists and ecologists that it is not enough simply to stop what we’re doing to the environment – say, stop logging. Humankind need to actively intervene toward restoration, like native plantings in National Parks, to work together with the created order for wholeness and balance.

“Work without conceptual meaning is hard” an activist said to me recently of societal apathy, perhaps this is a gift that Christian faith has to offer a world struggling to respond to the desperate cry of our earth. “Belief for so many Christians has become an exercise in rationalising the cognitive dissonance between what they read in the Bible and what they encounter on Sunday mornings” (p.13). If instead Christians have an understanding that The Word must always become Flesh, if we read the news, local and global environmental reports, WWF and other animal and ecosystem reports, research papers by climate scientists as well as our Bible – world and Word together – what might that do for our both our comprehension and capacity to respond?

Jeremiah 6:16 says: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls…

But in the very next statement this hope is dashed: “but they said: ‘We will not give heed’” (p.45)  Christians need to acknowledge our call to confession, our grief… our guilt. “we have done this”. (p.43) but our faith and the resurrection tell us we cannot be nailed down by our sin. What action then is demonstrably living into the freedom our faith invites us to?

One of Cornford essays unpacks seven dimensions of an alternative economic life that would express God’s counter-cultural good news… Rejection of the idols of ‘more’ and ‘me’; care and nurture; work; responsible consumption; household economy; generosity; and economic interdependence (p.29-36) these focus on the individual lives of Christians but other sections of the book also call for the Church to act out of its moral authority to speak to these serious issues of our time.

God has appointed us to be stewards of this earth, its water and land, its trees and flowers, its animals and birds.  To work it and keep it. To observe and serve it. God created it and saw that it was good – what do you say that it is? what do you believe it could be?

Copies of Coming Back to Earth are available from Wipf and Stock from $12

May 18, 2018 1 comment
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Common Sense

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

By Jodi Hansen —

WHY WE FAIL

Common sense and common business practice tell us that every once in a while, businesses, nonprofits, churches, community groups, and pretty much every organization needs to step back and ask some hard questions about their operations. Questions like, “Is this consistent with our mission?” and “Is this sustainable?” are key to evaluating organizational health.

Those who fail to take a hard look at whether their organization is living into its intended mission and doing it in a cost-effective way, will fail. Those who fail to make the necessary changes in operations and infrastructure to ensure they are living into their intended mission in a sustainable way, will fail.

I am presently watching this kind of drama unfold as the Newberg School District attempts to address a $4 million budget shortfall. The leadership failed to answer these kinds of basic questions about mission and sustainability in the past, and now the school board is scrambling to save the district by cutting staff and school days to get back on track.

What about our criminal justice system?

Who steps back and asks the hard questions about organizational health in this system?  

Is it living into the mission to protect public safety while rehabilitating those who threaten it?

Is the way our criminal justice system operates cost-effective and sustainable?

EVERYONE’S A CRITIC

Books by insiders such as Kamala Harris, Jens Soering, James Kilgore and Adam Benforado describe how our very expensive system is failing to protect our communities from violent criminals and failing to rehabilitate those who commit trauma and addiction driven crimes by addressing the root causes of criminal behavior.

Samantha Bee and John Legend are among a growing group of celebrities using their platforms to alert the public to the inordinate power held by prosecutors and elected DA’s in administering justice.  They stir us to ask the question, “How can we say that our citizens are innocent until proven guilty when too much power with too little oversight lies in the hands of an elected few whose focus is to WIN the prized guilty conviction?”

Others like Jay-Z have produced compelling YouTube videos about how the War on Drugs has failed, while law professor Michelle Alexander and pastor Dominique Gilliard expose the racism deeply imbedded in our system.

So, no, our system is not living into its mission and it seems everyone from celebrities to journalists to law professors to legal nonprofit leaders to pastors, and even those who have intersected with the criminal justice system themselves, are asking the important questions.

A BOAT LOAD OF CASH!  

But, we also need to ask if our present way of operating is cost-effective and sustainable. The criminal justice system is complex and a cost/benefit analysis is much more difficult to evaluate in a web of federal, state, and local agencies—all charged with the same mission—than it is in a better contained organization like a business. But, it is worth asking the question, “How much does this really cost?”

The Prison Policy Initiative, has done the hard work of pulling together all the different ways we spend money on criminal justice in our communities.  They report that our criminal justice system costs the government and families of justice-involved people $182 billion each year! That’s a lot of money being spent on a system that is failing to deliver on its mission.

But, whenever I see anything described in billions of dollars I get lost in the bigness. What does that big number mean and how much does that big number really impact my life?  Sometimes, I need to break the big issues down into smaller, more manageable, concepts. So, I decided to work with numbers I do understand.

WORKING WITH WHAT I DO KNOW

As a Home for Good in Oregon community chaplain and reentry mentor, I know that there are 85 men and women releasing to Yamhill County from our state prisons in 2018.  I also know that we spend approximately $47,000 per person per year to incarcerate these people. That means that keeping the 85 folks in prison for just the last year of their sentence cost the state of Oregon around $3,995,000.

This number doesn’t consider all the services they will need when they release like PO supervision, food stamps, mental health, addictions services, and housing assistance. This number doesn’t factor in how many years they served and what the total cost was to incarcerate each of these neighbors to be. It’s just a snapshot. But, it got me thinking: if all 85 of these folks had just one year of time taken off their sentence, it would have saved the state almost exactly what Newberg Public Schools is trying to cut from its budget.

COMMON SENSE

So, I wonder, if we shortened sentences just a bit, could we pay teachers better and have smaller class sizes?  If the government spent less on perpetuating a failing criminal justice system, would we have fewer drop-outs and maybe less addiction-driven crime in the future? What would the impact be of diverting some cash out of that $182 billion a year that it costs to keep this failing system alive to fund schools? Heck, the US Department of Education only got $68 billion this year.   

Living into Mission? NO

Sustainable? NO

Time to Change? YES

Jodi Hansen serves as director of Remnant Initiatives and as a community chaplain for Home for Good in Oregon reentry program. She holds an MA in ministry leadership from George Fox Evangelical Seminary (The Portland seminary) and is an affiliate minister with Communitas International.
May 17, 2018 0 comments
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A Canopy; A Poem

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

By Ana Lisa de Jong —

I will rest under your canopy.
Branches letting in just enough light
that I am shaded
but able to feel the sun.

I will rest under your weight.
Providence allowing just enough pressure
that I might burst my seeds
and learn my strength.

I will rest under your care.
My harvest, the simple pleasures
of living at peace within your domain,
and lining its walls with praise.

‘They will be God’s holy people.  And the land will produce for them its lushest bounty and its richest fruit.  Then the Lord will provide shade on all Jerusalem – over every home and all its public grounds – a canopy of smoke and cloud throughout the day, and clouds of fire at night, covering the glorious land, protecting it from day time heat and from rains and storms.’
Isaiah 4:4-6


‘My little town is homely as another,
But it is old,

And it is full of trees,

And it is covered with sky…’

From the poem Daily Bread, by Karle Wilson Baker

 

May 17, 2018 1 comment
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Waiting For A Word

by Christine Sine
written by Christine Sine

by Christine Sine

Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, and beyond is the long season of ordinary time when we live into the life God calls us to. Tom and I are about to go on one of our quarterly retreats , a great time to rethink, refocus and re-energize ourselves.

This morning in preparation for the retreat, I have been rereading Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings, Annotated by Christine Valters Paintner. It is a delightful book that quotes from the writings of these wise desert dwellers who chose to renounce the world in order to deliberately and individually follow God’s call. Their writings were first recorded in the fourth century and contain much spiritual advice that is still applicable today.

One characteristic of the desert fathers and mothers was their desire for a “word”. They were not asking for a command or a solution but for a communication that could be received as a stimulus to growth into a fuller life. Sounds like what I am hoping for as I head out for our retreat time. Though I am not sure I take these “words” as seriously as the monks did. The word would be pondered on for days or even for years. I love this story that Christine shares from Benedicta Ward Sayings of the Desert Fathers, p. xxii.

A monk once came to Basil of Caesarea and said, Speak a word, Father” and Basil replied, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,” and the monk went away at once. Twenty years later he came back and said, Father, I have struggled to keep your word now speak another word to me” and he said, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” and the monk returned in obedience to his cell to keep that also.

It is so easy for us to read the word of God and not really absorb it into our being. Or else we want to dissect it and work out what the author or the translator really wanted to say. To dwell in the word the way that the desert dwellers did we need to release our thinking minds and enter into a space where we can hold the word in our hearts, turning it over and over, pondering it but not trying to pull it apart.

This morning as I prayed the word that came to me is “God is love”. It is a phrase that I have pondered many times in the past. It has brought me healing as I imagined the love of God seeping into my broken soul. It has brought me encouragement as I pondered the love of God flowing out through me to touch the hearts and lives of the refugees and marginalized people I have worked with. And it has drawn me into greater intimacy with God as I have imagined the wonder of God’s love abiding in the depth of my heart.

The knowledge I have in my head of a loving God will never transform me unless I allow it to seep deep into my being so that it becomes the air I breath, the food I eat and the ater I drink. God can only respond in a loving way. If we allow that thought to guide us always it will transform the world. It will have us always on tiptoe looking for the loving things that God is doing. It will have us rising up in righteous anger against the unloving and hateful things that are done in the name of God. And it will have us always seeking to be loving towards God’s entire human family.

What is the word that God has lodged in your heart and wants you to ponder on? I pray that you will take time today to enter into that word in a way that allows it to speak to you.

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