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Date: 23 June 2005 13:21:57
I am so glad I blogged about being bored and all the rest of it. I feel so good for having said it, and I guess for realising it. Those around me were glad I'd said it too, cos apparently I'd been living it for a couple of weeks. I've been bored before, which I saw as A Good Thing, or as we say around here quite frequently, "It's all good," something to be experienced and learnt from. Not this time.
But now I know, I'm tired of my mundane life. I want to live in community with people. I want to be committed to people. I want to grow together, and share together. I want to work out spiritual disciplines together and keep each other accountable. I want people to know that I ate three mars bars today and said things I shouldn't have about someone else. I want to work together with others to transform our community. I don't want to do anything on my own.
I found this really cool quote from Christian Spirituality as a Way of Living Publicly: A Dialectic of the Mystical and Prophetic. (It's discussed in a shorter blog format over at Prodigal Kiwi here)
It is important also to recall the intimate link between Christian discipleship, including the association between public, social life and human identity, and Trinitarian theology. The core of the Christian life is to be united with God in Jesus Christ through a Spirit-led communion with one another. God's own relational nature is fundamental to this life. God is persons-in-communion, a mutuality of self-giving love. Communion underpins existence. Nothing is without communion, including human life.
I like it cos it I agree with it, and it says what I'm thinking, although a lot better and more succinctly than I ever could. I just like to know that I am not alone, and that I'm not an idiot.