Emerging Tree

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Seeking to enable the emergence of Church - a community of people who meet with Jesus and intend to become like him. Here this means people who live in a small, multiply deprived urban community in a provincial town. Mostly stories and reflection on the journey of a group of older women as they emerge into an intentional community meeting with and serving Jesus.

Journeying by Grace

Posted by tree / Tuesday, February 15, 2011 /

Logo of Grace, Ealing
By God's grace we seem to be moving on with our journey. Perhaps one day I will cease to be surprised when this happens. I haven't really seen the process happen, but we are now engaged in a corporate act of blessing - we have started the process of making a blanket. The conversation wasn't: 'shall we make a blanket for someone?' it was: 'who shall we make a blanket for?' Much is veiled.

This acts as a reminder to me - Jesus asks us to follow him, not to understand everything, or to make life happen.We live by grace, and our actions are both the result of grace, and the means of grace. This group of women within which each of us are both being held, and holding others is, and is becoming, a place of grace.

It looks like the language of 'blessing' may be the way of describing this within the group's culture - and I am hopeful it will be valid language in the wider community of which the group is part. No doubt this will become clearer as time passes.

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