Last weekend, we deepened our community experience on the all church retreat. The theme was "ubuntu," an African philosophy, which inspired the founding of Touching Tiny Lives, the safehouse we support. It is also a theme that runs through the writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. whose life we celebrated this week. King encourages us to be a "beloved community" and to see ourselves as part of "an inescapable web of mutuality." This weekend, each of us had a chance to find our place in this web at the retreat and hopefully with renewed interest in Sunday worship.
We found it by making meals together and taking turns cleaning up.
We found it by planning board games with all ages.
Our teenagers found it by playing hide and seek with our toddlers.
Our preteens found it by sledding with the younger kids.
We found it by reflecting on ubuntu, the situation in Lesotho, the words of Bonhoeffer and King, Oh, and Jesus.
We found it in multiple trips to the train station and shared cars.
We found it in nature walks with people we've only said "Peace Be with you" too.
I hope we find it each Sunday when we pass the peace to one another, age 1 to age 100. I hope as we say those familiar words, we desire not just for each other to have "peace" but also "to be" with each other.
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