Putting Jesus Back Together Again
This audiograph was sparked by a story for the Friendly Men. It’s about an Urban Abbey, a program at St. George’s that uses monastic practices to reconnect people with their faith. Spirituality & Health also wanted an article.
It’s curious how often Americans come up with remedies for healing their faith from the damage of everyday life. Working all week long till Sunday comes and we can dust Jesus off and put him back on the shelf . . . but then tugged by some lingering sense of shame for letting him fall off in the first place.
It suggests an incongruity in our lives, between the way we live and the way we want to worship, as if the two could only get along by bloodying each other up. Just to get by we apparently need things like “10 Ways a Busy Mom Can Build Her Spiritual Life” , prayer gardens, and labyrinths. It’s as if faith should be kept immaculate and separate from the rest of our lives so it can remain untainted by the ungodliness that we suffer upon our soul every other day.
Can the two not touch, not interact?
Jorge vs The Ninja Turtles
Heaped onto the pile of debatable issues is illegal immigration. For every armed zealot reliving the art of Ninja Turtles there’s a militant willing to dole out the country’s resources to any tempest-tossed that happens by.
“Ninja Turtle Effect”. Many of us here have backgrounds in military and law enforcement operations, and some see our operations here as a way to “re-live the glory days”.
One such huddle mass is Jorge who asked not to be photographed because of what happened here:
My Daughter Knocked Out the Whole East Coast
An audiograph about the ’69 blackout
It’s odd how society will congeal in times of unusual circumstances like snowstorms or blackouts, but not in usual times. Why do we wait for daily life to change drastically before we cross the street to check on the lonely old lady? Why are we more likely to talk to strangers in the market when there’s lots of snow?