Good morning…
We began this semester studying one book, Wintering by Katharine May. To our surprise, we will end this semester studying a second book, Parker Palmer’s new 25th anniversary edition of Let Your Life Speak. We did not plan this expansion into more, but the seamlessness of these oddly orange book covers, set side by side, offers a visual nod from God, “You, my friends, are following my lead.”
“In the face of our deep divides, we seem to think that the way to connect is to avoid the particularities of our lives and speak in abstractions, reaching into the stratosphere for generalizations no one can disagree with,” writes Parker Palmer in the new introduction. “But that doesn’t work – at intellectual altitudes like that, the air is too thin to breathe. If we want to connect as human beings, each of us must be willing to dive deep into the well of our own story, so deep that we hit the living waters that feed all of the wells.”
My own story is immersed in the Christian faith, so I dive down deep into the biblical well, hitting the living waters that feed all of the wells.
On the last day, the biggest day of the festival, Jesus stood again and spoke aloud. “If any of you is thirsty, come to Me and drink. If you believe in Me, the Hebrew Scriptures say that rivers of living water will flow from within you” (John 7:37-38, VOICE).
If we want to connect as human beings, let’s dive down deep into the well of our own stories to experience the eternal flow of living waters.
…Sue…
