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Date: 16 March 2011 15:46:17
This post summed up my Christmas 2006 trip to Iona. In it I began one paragraph by saying, "Here is where I sum up the deep(ish) and not so deep wisdom I discovered on Iona, or atleast that which I’m prepared to share:" It indicated that some wisdom may have been discovered on Iona that, at that time, I was not willing to share beyond my two closest friends. Now, apparently, I need to learn not only to share that "wisdom" but to be able to sum it up clearly and concisely. That, with me will take some time.....but my friends, I guess I am starting with you. On that tiny island, a thin place, I heard the voice of God. It was telling me, (asking me to be willing?), that one day I would be sent on mission to those on the edges of and beyond church. At the time, in relation to that experience, I wrote the following: " Mission is / was more than the Victorian subversion of it. Mission seems, instead, to be about taking the risk to move out from our own, very real, yet personal struggles for survival to join others in their struggles for survival in order to (i) just share “being” with them & (ii) help them to connect with God just where they are, in their culture and environment. Engaging in mission is about being prepared to engage in a journey and being prepared to be humble and vunerable; taking risk." That moment in December 2006 was when I recieved my "call" and the process since then in coming to Durham, discovering and becoming a member of the Methodist Church and doing the EDEV course have been steps forward in discerning what that call might mean and reaching a point when I have been able to start exploring that call in a more structured way and what it might mean in practice for my life. Scary.....but where life is right now.