vulnerability
Broken-open community
As I reflected on the heft of my heart, sitting in a room with so many others, each of us on our own journey, our paths mingling and diverging, I felt the strength of brokenness.
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Beginning
Not long ago I shared with a gathering of others a way of governance birthed out of a commitment to vulnerable practice. I have been consciously immersed in the research of that practice for some time as I prepare to write my dissertation on its theological roots, its practices and the fullness of life it…
Read MoreA Patch of Sun
All week I’ve been writing, trying to capture the integration of my thoughts and my practice of the intersection of vulnerability and leadership. And now I want only to stand in that gently shining place we see among the trees. The place that seems as though it might be the milieu of wholeness; surely if…
Read MoreThe Gift of a Question
A wise woman gave me a question. “What would it look like in this moment to take one small step in the direction of Love?” It wasn’t an asked question. It was truly given. I carry it with me in the place that is the last to close up in fear or anger, in fatigue…
Read MoreBlessings in the world
Always in life we are relinquishing something or someone, gracefully or with great struggle. We relinquish childhood for adolescence, adolescence for adulthood and its various stages one for another. We relinquish one state of health for another, one beloved home for the smaller one that meets our needs. To be able to live well in…
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