Amber, thank you for reflecting on and sharing about your time there! It's "interesting" how similar our doctoral projects were, and your words here have me thinking two paradoxical, yet perfectly fitting things. Surrender and wrestle. There's a mysterious power to the spiritual practice of surrender, at the heart of which is surrendering to our own (and thus everyone else's) inherent soul beauty. Surrendering to the Truth that every person ever is equally an image bearer, a reflector and replica of the transcendent Light of the Creator. And, it popped to mind how in the Intro to Hermeneutics class at the Seattle School, the foundation of how we were taught to read the text was the story of Jacob wrestling the angel/God. I saw in what you shared about your church, that y'all wrestled well together. This can certainly be awkward, leads to bruises, and so on. But, when we stay in the ring together, something beautiful happens. When we tenaciously cling to both one another, and our desperate search for how/what/why _______, something transcendent occurs. Thank you for reminding me! 🫶🏽
Amber, thank you for reflecting on and sharing about your time there! It's "interesting" how similar our doctoral projects were, and your words here have me thinking two paradoxical, yet perfectly fitting things. Surrender and wrestle. There's a mysterious power to the spiritual practice of surrender, at the heart of which is surrendering to our own (and thus everyone else's) inherent soul beauty. Surrendering to the Truth that every person ever is equally an image bearer, a reflector and replica of the transcendent Light of the Creator. And, it popped to mind how in the Intro to Hermeneutics class at the Seattle School, the foundation of how we were taught to read the text was the story of Jacob wrestling the angel/God. I saw in what you shared about your church, that y'all wrestled well together. This can certainly be awkward, leads to bruises, and so on. But, when we stay in the ring together, something beautiful happens. When we tenaciously cling to both one another, and our desperate search for how/what/why _______, something transcendent occurs. Thank you for reminding me! 🫶🏽
Thank you for reading dear friend. Surrender is so hard for me but I’m learning to do it better all the time.
That was just beautiful! Thank you for sharing Amber.
Thank you for reading! ♥️
This is so beautiful, thanks for sharing Amber.
Thank you for reading, Aimee. ♥️