Once again from "Let the Bones Dance" - Marcia W. Mount Shoop - in a section called 'Disposition of Interdependence: Embodying Relationality.' What if bodies refused to be invisible? What if they were given the space to tell the truth about our connections with all that is? What if we let models of relationship and interdependence like placentas, midwives, and bodies giving birth in-form our dispositions? The embodied embrace of this kind of truth and power could surely hasten the church's capacity to be response-able . The new creek bed in-formed by practice finds its path through the relationships and connections that intersect us all. We are tangled up with everything that is. Our connections with one another, and with God are cellular. She is certainly asking for the body of Christ to be a vulnerable gathering of saints - and rightly so. We will not be able to be response-able if we do not see and hear and experience the truthfulness of the condition of life of those all around us. Such openness does leave us open to anything that may come our way and we will be handed the opportunity to step up and step in to see to the well-being of those within the community. In this way the whole is made more and more into one body that continues to reflect the way of the Christ among us. We will move forward - always. But along the way it will be the encounters that will give us depth and beauty and purpose and meaning. From that - comes a well in-formed and response-able people. Connection: Not everyone likes to be tied too tightly to others. Then again, when we are honest with one another, we can each learn to ask for more or less attention and to ask where and when we can be available to others. Gather us as one, O God, making us this body of Christ that brings to life the compassion of our Lord so that our life in community is really a new life in the world. Amen. |
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