This eve, the wondrous Molly organized and fabulously facilitated the first in likely a series of meetings where we, being the shekinah community, are putting into words how we want to be with each other, in the community and in the world. This is my attempt at summarizing where we landed after the flurry of excitement we created at Ray's Monkey House.
WORDS... and several of them...
we took the words we had been collecting in the jar during the last several wednesday 'Just Be's, and threw in a handful more.
After that, we came up with these statements for a rough sketch of a rough draft:
as kindred spirits with shekinah:
we promise to nurture and share our internal journeys with each other.
within our community we hold each other accountable to devote time and energy through our presence, intentional prayer and sharing of gifts.
we vow to move forward from this safe and loving community to spread joy and radical enthusiasm
we left off there to be respectful of the time limit that was set for this particular meeting. we did have a few other words or thoughts to be added somewhere: honoring suffering/pain
social justice/environmental
engaging/evolving journey
three more words to add somewhere near the top (according to my notes):
listening, openess, healing
we also want to communicate somehow that we are followers of christ, or a christian community.
that sort of sums it up. We did schedule another meeting for wednesday evening june 25th.
we would love your input! if you can't make the meeting, be sure to add to this discussion via email. discussion also very welcome. this is a community project!
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