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Date: 03 January 2007 19:54:31
Ok, so before this gets really, really, really boring and ends up like Thermo Man (something that should have been put to bed long ago), here is the final installment.
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:
1. Life is like a field of dung, if you negotiate your way through it long enough you will find somewhere beautiful.
2. Life may be like a tree in winter, but just like the tree; bare and vunerable to the elements but rooted into a strong trunk, spring will come eventually and life will blossom.
3. 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.
4. Tables are cool and meals are a great time to build community.
5. Running away isn't always running away; sometimes it turn into pilgrimage and end up giving you something to run to rather than run from.
Anyway that's enough of the "hippy" wisdom, the normal cynical Tractor Girl will return tomorrow ;)