Day 111g: Cohabitating with the compassionate … (August 18, 2019)
What followed that day was truly quite remarkable – a communal showering of grace and kindness that was rarely experienced along my Walk. First fill-n pastor Grace and her husband John arrived and heard about my Walk and graciously invited me to stay. Then I shared a wonderful chat about life and radically living The Way that was taught by Jesus himself with church volunteers Cindy & Robin. Then I went upstairs and was able to witness my message of Radical Peace to congregation member Rebecca as well before the service commenced. The church proceeding itself proceeded with little fanfare of note, and then Grace & John invited me to enjoy a lovely breakfast with them at a nearby restaurant (Grace had graduated from Princeton University’s Theological Seminary, and I was & remain a practical scholar of The Way of Christ, so the conversation was both loving & quite lively, to say the least). Finally, it turned out that Corey & Bea (pictured below), two wonderfully kind members of the congregation, had stated that they wanted to put me up for the night in their own home. And so a wonderful day ended on a truly wonderful note – with Corey & Bea feeding me and offering the use of their warm shower and mending the holes in my shorts and washing all my clothes and letting me use their computer to get online and then allowing me to sleep oh-so-soundly in their son’s own bed (he was away at the time) …
“Reclaiming neighborliness as part of the communal life is essential to bringing Christ’s vision to life. No person can live wholly & spiritually solely unto themselves. It is simply impossible. And yet, even more importantly, the personalization of neighborliness returns the authority of the Soul to the members of every community. When residents start to deeply care for one another again (where caring becomes a verb), this is what taps into the all-inclusive DNA of the Jesus’ life and his truest message.” ~ via C. Andrew Doyle
“If you call a pilgrim a vagabond, I think you do him wrong. For he never goes a-traveling but rather takes his home along. And the only reason a road is good, as every pilgrim knows, is just because the homes, the homes, the homes, the homes, the homes to which it goes.” ~ via Joyce Kilmer
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