eleven:eleven

We see things differently. That’s the truth of it. To some, a gold ring is just a ring, a formal symbol of a commitment to fidelity and marriage. To another, it’s a symbol of abiding love and unity that holds all things together, an inheritance of a history of love.

This Sunday in eleven:eleven, we will continue our series, Imagine That! As we think together about prophetic imagination and the power of re-framing our ways of seeing things — and the stories we tell ourselves.

This Sunday, November 3, we will meet back at the Historic 512 (in the CTL) as we welcome special guest singer/songwriter Hannah Kirby!

This is a one-time special event (unless we are all here 90 years from now), and we hope to see you there!

Linda and I recently had the privilege of caring for our granddaughters for about 5 days. It was so much fun — and exhausting. We did a lot of the grandparent things you might do with your kids: go to the zoo, the park, the museum.

I once heard someone describe their worry as a persistent, gnawing at their very existence — their life feeling consumed, piece by piece and moment by moment, till their life was not theirs . . .

Over the weekend, I stumbled on to a Book Festival in a nearby town featuring authors and illustrators of every genre from all over the US. So I sat in on one session of Middle-Grade authors. And I noticed a common theme — first drafts.

Change wouldn’t be so hard if you didn’t have to change with it. Even welcome changes that we’ve hoped and planned for present some cracks in the sidewalk for us. And when the changes we face are not our choices, keeping our footing gets even harder.

Kintsugi is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery. Rather than attempting to repair broken ceramic pieces with a hidden adhesive, the Kintsugi technique employees a special tree sap lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

This Sunday, we’re starting a new series, How to Be Human. I invite you to join me as we explore paths of ambiguity and unknowing toward the discovery of the light at the heart of our humanity.