7/1/06
'…on Sunday we hosted our first open community meal at Helen and Ian’s. Having talked a lot, our intention is to practice what we’ve been talking about, and learning together a lot more this year. Central to this is our desire to develop our spiritual lives around our meal-times and the day-to-day stuff of our lives – as Jean Varnier describes, to live hospitably, to live lives of welcome and invitation, lives that say “come in”, join in. Around twenty of us met and ate and talked and broke bread together on Sunday. I spoke for a few minutes about living our community lives outwardly and intentionally, and then we ‘greeted’ one another with the Maori Honghi welcome I’d learnt in New Zealand. The kids loved it. And so did I… this is the beginning of the next phase of our lives, I’m sure…'
Phil,
(extract from Toggie Tales!)
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