The Graze V.156: The Edges

Dear Friends:

I made my way up "Ellen's Vista" - the upper trail at Mission Farm this week. The ground is still a bit wet. Several places along the trail couldn't be travailed - fallen trees, ice, and mud blocked the path. I had to find another way. Walking on the edges gave me a new appreciation for the way new life emerges in the wilderness - moss peeking through the fallen leaves and ferns unfurling.

Spring always feels to me like the edge of something new. It is a season of mud and new growth as we await what is to emerge. There is something wise and enlightening about looking at our lives and our institutions from the edges. We learn from a new perspective. We see the world through the eyes of others.

Scientists, ecologists, sociologists, and theologians describe an emerging new cosmic era - an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship with the web of life. We understand this from a climate crisis perspective and feel it in our lives. With such massive change, we are all learning what it means to be human at this moment in time. So much is shifting in our world: our understanding of our work, the ways we relate to one another, the shifts in our institutions, and the way our faith informs our everyday living.

We are meant to travel through these changes together. Perhaps we can lean into the edges, see our way forward from a new perspective, assist one another on the journey, and experience together the reciprocity at the heart of the universe.

This is the same promise we are given in our faith. Jesus is not still nailed to the cross; he is down here at our side. May we experience this love and this trust in life on the edges.

Blessings,

Lisa+