I browse several sites and THEOOZE is consistently provocative. Here's a great video:
The future of the church and our little site in Arlington is on my mind nearly constantly. We have many challenges--including a setting that seems to have everything going for it, and yet is nearly invisible to the neighborhood. Who would notice if Church of the Covenant disappeared? And yet we sit among a great in-migration of people and cultures that are different and wonderful.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
home from vacation
The church didn't burn down while I was away for 4 weeks, so I'm counting that as God's opinion that we should continue here!
The first week out of town was with a group doing a mission project in Iowa City. See the photos and stories on the church website "covenantchurcharlington.org" The group came together in new and wonderful ways, and so I'm thankful, for their witness to the rest of the congregation and their springing up in hope. If God is in it, somehow it works out--demonstrated well by the week.
The next two weeks I spent in Alaska with husband and his siblings, in the first reunion of sorts of the Goss family since their parents' death two years ago. Brother-in-law Dave made the arrangements for the cruise, and we supplemented various land excursions...too many experiences to catalogue, but I suppose I should label the pictures before I forget what they were. In a vast land like Alaska, one can experience the desolation and grandeur at the same time. While I was traveling, I was reading "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer, and was fascinated by the type of persona that is drawn into such difficult experiences, almost as a spiritual quest.
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