Mobilizing & Relationality as Spiritual Practice

Thanks to the Presbytery of Minnesota Valleys for including this Call to Action in their weekly newsletter, The Valley Bridge; and to Rev. Cameron Trimble for sharing her observations in her Piloting Faith (Almost Daily Meditations.

Both are ways in which every congregation in any denomination can participate!

The PCUSA / Bread for the World flier reads:

‘The federal budget threatens to cut vital nutrition assistance programs like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), putting millions at risk of hunger. People of faith are called to respond with compassion and courage. One way congregations can act is by joining Bread for the World’s letter-writing campaign to urge Congress to protect and strengthen anti-hunger programs.’

The post continues:

‘Hunger affects every community, but we have the power to end hunger in our lifetime. The Presbyterian Hunger Program and Bread for the World are sharing how your congregation can help protect and strengthen anti-hunger programs by beginning a letter-writing campaign. Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q03qrHLM0#PCUSA #EndHunger.’

Read. Sign. Share. Invite. Encourage.

Rev. Cameron Trimble wonders, ‘When Strategy Isn’t Enough‘, writing, ‘We’re trying to organize our way of collapse.

And maybe – maybe outwitting collapse is not what’s needed most.

What if salvation was never the point? What if the era of problem-solving is giving way to something else? What if what’s needed now is sacred accompaniment – learning to stay with one another, stay with the earth, stay with the brokenness – without trying to fix it all?

If we allow ourselves to shift from thinking primarily in terms of strategy to thinking in terms of story, of relationally, a new kind of clarity emerges.’

Trimble is not advocating for inactivity or disengagement, but for a robust ‘relational sensing’ that leads to ‘devotion’, ‘attunement’, ‘resonance’, and ‘rhythm’.

Read her full post here.

Let’s join together – all of us, every congregation, from all denominations – to listen, attune, and emerge as new people – with new systems, new ways of being, and new lives of justice.

 

 

 

 

 

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