4D Growth

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Have you ever heard music that you just can’t find the groove of? You can’t do that thing that usually comes so naturally… tap your toe, nod your head, keep time on the steering wheel, conduct?

[Rhythm - an event repeating regularly over time (claps, heart beats, sunrise/sunset, etc)

Rhythms for Life - what are the regularly repeated events of our lives that help us to flourish as human beings?

When I think of trying to find a sustainable rhythm for my life, I often think about what I do. What events repeat regularly over time in my own life. Both those I have some control over as well as those rhythms that are beyond my control. Seasonal rhythms, weekly and daily rhythms.

But here’s the really dangerous thing. Today as we are thinking about the way we engage in rhythms that bring about spiritual and human flourishing…well, this could end up being a sermon that simply lengthen your to do list. Or give you a spiritual report card that is almost certainly showing room for improvement. But that’s not what this sermon is about. This sermon is about invitation to notice the rhythms that are built into life. To recognize the different directions of our spiritual attentiveness. And to learn how to hear the rhythm of God … and how to just tap our toe to the beats we begin to hear.

Let me show you what I mean. There is an artist who I have been following just a little over the last couple of years. His name is Jacob Collier and he is an incredible musician. He hears and sees things in music that blow me away. And I think this video in which he breaks down the different parts of one of the tracks on one of his albums will give you a sense of what I’m talking about.

So, before we watch this, let me be clear. This series is NOT about us learning how to do all the things that Jacob is doing in the video. This series is an opportunity for us to realize how beautiful and intricate the rhythms of God are… and to just learn to appreciate them. To tap our toes. To nod our heads. To let the music wash over us.

Jacob Collier.

Rhythm - an event repeating regularly over time]

Rhythms for Life - what are the regularly repeated events or practices of our lives that help us to flourish as human beings?

How do we recognize that God is at work forming Christ in us? And then how do we learn to pay attention? How do we cooperate?

We’ll listen for the rhythms that are part of the movement of God. We’ll learn how to notice the patterns or the repetitions and to see where they intersect with our own lives and our own spiritual practice.

Over the centuries, spiritual practices have emerged among the people of God. Sometimes, certain practices have been neglected or elevated, but there are a few that have persisted.

I’m choosing to use the words “practice” for a couple of reasons.

#1 It highlights that mastery isn’t really the goal. Instead, we practice things we want to learn, acknowledging that there isn’t really a destination. There’s only a trajectory.

#2 It highlights the reality that we will do this things over and over again. In different seasons, and during different kinds of circumstances.

#3 It is a term that makes sense both inside and outside of the church.

The book identifies the four directions in which we need to grow, the four directions in which we long for deeper connection.

So what does it mean to experience 4D growth?

UPward to God, INward to self, WITHward in community and OUTward in mission.

All four directions are necessary. But, I think it’s also likely that there is one that comes more naturally to us and perhaps one that we tend to underemphasize.

UP. What are the practices that help us pay attention in an UPward, a God-ward movement?

There are three as promised. So let’s look at each one briefly.

Solitude .

Gratitude.

Sabbath.

Now, a quick reminder, this is not a checklist. These are invitations. So there are no grades. There is only invitation.

To see where you are already practicing these AND a beckoning to maybe deepen a practice or to try it a different way than have before.

Or maybe even an invitation to discover its rhythm already present, but just unnoticed in your life.

INward movement. How does God invite us to relate to ourselves? Before we think about relating to others, we have to start with how we relate to ourselves. And there are three practices that help us do this…

Self-examination.

Stewardship.

Guidance.

Now, a quick reminder once again, this is not a checklist. These are invitations. So there are no grades.

There is an invitation to see where you are already practicing these AND a beckoning to maybe deepen a practice or to try it a different way than you have before.

How does self-examination show up in your life?

How does stewardship express itself?

What does guidance look like for you?

Where do you seek it and how do you receive it?

The goal of the inward movement is integration. Integration - where all the parts of us relate to each other as intended. Inward movement is not self-actualization or “finding oneself” but becoming the most authentic versions of ourselves. Discovering the truth of ourselves - in all of our beauty and dignity AND in all of our struggle and brokenness. Until we accept the reality of who we are, we can’t expect growth. Sterne writes in his chapter on the INward movements:

“The inward journey is not merely embracing our good parts and ignoring our bad parts. Nor is it compulsively identifying our sin to the neglect of any good in us. Instead of embracing ourselves selectively, Christian self-acceptance embraces the whole picture of who we are.

We can do this because God doesn’t shrink back from our failures and mistakes, our sins and transgressions. He always moves towards us, even the darkest parts of us, with love. As Paul wrote, “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). In accepting our whole selves before God, we embrace that we are not just sinners; we are beloved sinners.

This makes all the difference.”

Did you hear that one line in the middle?

“God always moves towards us, even the darkest parts of us, with love.”

If God moves toward us in love - always in love - is it possible that we can begin to join in on that rhythm…moving even towards our inner selves with love. That is the strain we’re trying to hear…seeking pick out from the music… each of these practices helps us to that. We take our cue from God - if God can move toward us in love, in compassion, can we also relate to ourselves in this way? If we are to make any progress toward the goal of integration, or becoming the most authentic versions of our human selves… well, then I think we have to start from this posture. No one has hated themselves into authenticity. No one has disciplined themselves into integration. Acceptance comes first. Acknowledging and allowing ourselves to see who we really are. Then love draws us in. Invites growth. Shines light into dark corners and onto shadow selves. But transformation isn’t the first step.

The three practices help us get a little more practical. Let’s look at each one: self-examination, stewardship, and guidance.

Self-examination.

French Reformer John Calvin once wrote “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.”

Self-examination is all about learning how to pay attention to our own lives, our own experiences so that we can become more aware even as we experience things in real time. It’s about reconnecting what can easily get disconnected.

Self-examination is an invitation to pay attention. To notice. But not in order to critique or to pass judgment. Just to notice so we are aware. And can live in a growing awareness of who we are and how we tend to approach things. (And, of course, how there are other legitimate ways to approach things as people will constantly demonstrate for us.)

Do you feel your way through a day? Do you act your way through a day? Do you think your way through a day?

Are you naturally focused on the present moment? The past? The next moment?

We don’t all answer those questions the same way. But also, sometimes we don’t even know the answers to those questions for ourselves. And self-examination helps us see and name the ways in which we most naturally move through the world.

One way of practicing this kind of paying attention is something I actually mentioned last week: Praying the examen.

I didn’t go into a lot of detail, but mentioned in passing that praying the examen includes looking back over a period of time, asking when did I feel most alive? When did I experience joy? When did I feel most connected to the Creator? I was making the connection between the examen and practicing gratitude. And it is helpful for that. But there is also more to it as well.

Tracing its roots back to 16th century Ignatius of Loyola, the Examen was meant to help the Christian grow in a awareness of God’s presence in every moment of life by paying attention (and learning to pay better attention) to when we have sensed God’s presence or have experienced God’s invitation throughout the day. Or maybe have even seen God at work - in our own lives or in the world around us.

But the examen also gives opportunity to see how we might be avoiding or resisting God’s invitations, or how our choices or habits might be keeping up from enjoying the freedom God’s love brings. Richard Foster described the Examen as a prayerful reflection on the thoughts, feelings, and actions of our day to see how God has been at work in our lives and how we respond.

There are many ways to engage in self-examination, but the one thing that they all have in common will be that they enable us to pay attention - and to grow in awareness. Self-examination leads us toward integration by helping us notice what’s going on internally.

Stewardship

Now, you might immediately think that stewardship is speaking about finances. And they are included, but stewardship is more far-reaching than just our money.

Stewardship is about how we relate to and handle all that has been entrusted to us. So yes, financial resources might well be included, but what about our time, our relationships, our work, our skills and talents...

Key to the practice of stewardship is the posture that it takes in relation to all that has been entrusted to us. All is actually God’s and we have been given access, opportunity, invited to STEWARD… going all the way back to Genesis 2 where the humans are put in the garden and asked to tend it, to cultivate it.

This principle extends to every part of our lives then.

These people? They belong to God first.

This house? It’s God’s.

These hours of my day? God’s.

This body? God’s.

This money? These possessions? They are God’s first.

When we steward what belongs to someone else, we take their wishes into consideration. What would God have me do with my body, my possessions, my time, my relationships, my…

And a key way that we flourish is in how we relate to, how we handle all that has been entrusted to us. All of that is stewardship.

And then thirdly, guidance.

The practice of guidance involves hearing from others so that we can see ourselves more clearly and catch a glimpse of how God is at work in our lives.

Note that even though this is an INward practice, it requires other people.

Just as solitude is an UPward practice. Guidance requires another person in order for us to receive the gift of what other people can see.

This is a practice that will require relationship.

For many people, guidance comes in the form of a spiritual director.

“What exactly do spiritual directors do? The simple and most direct answer I can give is that they help others attend to God’s presence and revelation and prepare to respond to him. In other words, they help people attune themselves to God.” (David Benner, Sacred Companions, p.106)

Within the protestant tradition, there is such a focus on learning and getting more knowledge - and so spiritual direction stops the fire hose spray of things to know and allows us to slow down and attend to the things that often get overlooked.

One image that I find really helpful when speaking spiritual direction is that of a midwife. A spiritual director, as a sort of spiritual midwife, is there to nurture that life within a person and to walk with them as it is brought forth into the world.

For me, spiritual direction has been a place where I receive and practice guidance.

There are, of course, other ways that we receive guidance. Some people find that a particular friend or two might serve as a place in which they feel they can receive guidance. Sometimes a spiritual leader or even a pastor ;) might be someone who helps us in this regard.

And then, of course, there are overlaps between practices and even in the directions. We mentioned the overlap of Praying the Examen leading to gratitude, but also to self-examination.

And some of you have found something like the enneagram to be a helpful tool, both for self-examination and for guidance. Those of you who are familiar are nodding away - as one of the gifts of the enneagram is that it not only exposes your “superpowers” and “achilles heels” but it also is a powerful tool for self-compassion and then ultimately of compassion for others with whom relationships might otherwise be fraught and full of misunderstanding.

The enneagram helps a person to discover and explore the questions I asked at the beginning… about whether you think, feel or act your way through a day. And about whether you focus tends to naturally be on the past, present or future. And knowing and understanding even these two things can have a massive impact on growing in self-awareness and in self-compassion. If you’re interested in exploring the enneagram, send me a note, or ask one of the Juras’…

And so I wonder...

How does self-examination show up in your life?

How does stewardship express itself?

What does guidance look like for you?

Where do you seek it and how do you receive it?

The goal of the inward movement is integration. Integration - where all the parts of us relate to each other as intended. Inward movement is not self-actualization or “finding oneself” but becoming the most authentic versions of ourselves. Discovering the truth of ourselves - in all of our beauty and dignity AND in all of our struggle and brokenness.

God moves toward us…always in love.

We learn to move toward ourselves in the same way. With acceptance and love first. Growth and transformation can come out of that posture.

WITHward movement. How does God invite us to relate to those around us? How does community shape the rhythms that lead to flourishing and to growing as a follower of Jesus?

The three practices :

Spiritual gifts

Spiritual friendship

Table

Now, a quick reminder once again, this is not a checklist. These are invitations.

There is an invitation to see where you are already practicing these AND a beckoning to maybe deepen a practice or to try it a different way than you have before.

How does spiritual gifts show up in your life?

Have you ever experienced spiritual friendship?

What place does the table occupy in your life?t?

The goal of the WITHward movement is to connect us to others. But it’s not for our sakes alone. This connection, this movement is necessary for all involved. We are connected more than we know. As we have experienced during COVID. Our longing to be WITH one another in ways that we have not been able to be reminds us that we’re made for connection. But we have also realized that what we do affects other people - or perhaps we realized it in reverse as we watch other people do things that would put us or those more vulnerable at an increased risk. Suddenly we have all realized that we’re far more connected than we knew.

Now, when you think about community, I wonder if you think about verses like:

Psalm 133:1–3 NIV

1 How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! 2 It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down on the collar of his robe. 3 It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.

Proverbs 27:17 NIV

17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Matthew 18:20 NIV

20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

Romans 12:4–5 NIV

4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

Romans 15:5–7 NIV

5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, 6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 NIV

14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

Hebrews 10:24–25 NIV

24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

1 Peter 3:8 NIV

8 Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.

1 John 4:11 NIV

11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

The WITHward rhythm is all about the “one another”-ing… love one another, spur one another on to good deeds, accept one another, belong to one another, sharpen one another, ...

And let’s face it, the WITHward rhythms are the best of times and the worst of times. Experiences of community done well often end up being highlights of our Christian experience. And bad experiences in community can do lasting damage to our souls - and to our willingness to try again. And understandably so.

But growing UPward to God and INward to self will always require also growing WITHward in community.

I’m sorry to be the one to say it. But when we meet Jesus, we get introduced to His friends. It’s not possible to remain a “lone ranger” Jesus follower. It’s just not how it works.

Let’s look at the practices of this WITHward movement - Spiritual gifts, spiritual friendship and the table.

Spiritual Gifts

We read from Romans 12 and 15 earlier - and they’re FULL of this idea that our gifts aren’t for us. God has placed unique abilities - and combinations of these abilities with our personalities and life experiences and … the YOU-ness of you. But the gifts God gives you AREN’T FOR YOU. They’re for the body…for the community of faith, for the living, breathing organism we sometimes call the church.

The list of gifts is an ever shifting one - depending on which texts of the NT you focus on. But they’re there. And you have at least one of them. But it’s not just for you, it’s for the common good of the community. When you don’t learn how to use it, WE suffer. The Body isn’t able to function the way it ought to. And yes, the Spirit is animating that gift in you, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to learn how to use it. (ie. teaching? well that gift is going to be pretty useless if you never learn anything to teach others; have the gift of faith? Well, it’s not to be exercised in having faith about your own life, your own family… it’s for the Body. Or the gift of mercy? Or the gift of helps? Well, all of those are excercised in a “one another” kind of space. It requires OTHERS.

Community/home/small groups are great for this… (places to connect and to use our gifts for one another!)

Spiritual friendship

The most basic definition of spiritual friendship is a relationship that is grounded in shared discipleship. Two followers of Jesus who walk together for a season - whether short or long. I have had friendships based on many different shared interests or pursuits. And we need different kinds of friends, but having at least one or two other Christians with whom we can share the ups and downs of our spiritual journey as peers - that is priceless.

Having a friend who is also a Christian won’t necessarily guarantee that you’ll have a spiritual friendship, but if you are willing to share a bit of your own journey, you might find yourself in one. Joining in a bible study or learning group, volunteering to help out in something, all of these give you opportunity to walk side by side with others and connections are likely to emerge that will give you opportunity to engage in this practice.

The other possibility is that you might be mindful of the kinds of questions you ask your friends. Especially, in conversations with friends who share your faith in Jesus, ask (and be willing to share your own answers) questions about what they’re discovering, struggling with, wondering about, reading…

Table

According to David Fitch in his little book Seven Practices for the Church on Mission, here are (at least!) three kinds of table experiences that we can participate in:

The Lord’s Table - which we’ll gather around in just a few minutes.

The household table - where we gather as Christians, but in ways that are always inviting others in…

The community table - where we show up not as host, but as guest.

In all three table experiences, the people of God are being shaped “to be present to God’s presence in Christ around the table, where we eat.

The Lord’s Table, or the Eucharist - is a meal we eat as an act of worship as a community of faith. We gather at this table because Jesus told us to… whenever you do this, remember Me. Our model is Luke 24, where the disciples on the road to Emmaus encounter the living Christ in the breaking of bread.

But what about the tables in our homes? What does the table experience there have to do with spiritual practices? Isn’t it about keeping us fed and nourished? Well, yes. But the idea is that just as Christ is the host of the Eucharist when we gather at the Table in worship, we are also given the opportunity to mimic this and become hosts ourselves … with our households, and very possibly with other believers, but also to invite people who don’t yet know Jesus to gather with us in our homes. To mingle with our mini-communities so that they can experience that belonging to something bigger.

I’ll admit, this is the practice I feel I have the least experience with… and one I long to explore. But I know that some of you practice this kind of open hospitality regularly and creatively. We need one another to learn from one another and to grow together. The image of the table being extended out from the church gathered, reaching out into the lives of our neighbours and friends when we are the church scattered. Beautiful! Our model for this kind of table is the feeding of the crowds of people in texts like Mark 6.

Thirdly, there are the tables we get invited to… and where we are not meant to show up as host, but rather as guest. Fitch writes of these spaces,

“Here we no longer serve as hosts; instead we come as guests, giving up all control. In all our weakness we submit to Christ’s presence among us and allow Him to work. We pay attention to what God is doing as we listen, tending to His work.”

Now these are the tables where we might have the most trouble discerning the presence and work of Christ, but then again, maybe it’s not so hard to see? The story I shared with you about taking the muffins to the Moccasin Square Gardens just behind the Kamloops Indian Residential School, is just such a story… I had something to give in this case, but I had to recognize that I wasn’t going to be in charge of what happened… I was just going to show up and offer a small gesture of friendship and support on behalf of our church. Showing up when invited, and truly taking the posture of a guest… well, that’s hard for us. We’re much more accustomed to having answers, making plans, etc.

What other tables are you invited to sit at? Maybe a tea party or lemonade stand table hosted by a grandchild or a young neighbour? May we have eyes to see these invitations…and hearts to notice where God is working… ears that perk up when we hear the rhythms, sense the movement of God.

OUTward movement. How are being invited to join God in mission? What does it mean that God moves outward? And how do we join in?

Hospitality

Generous service

Faith all week long (or faith on the other six days)

Now, a quick reminder once again, this is not a checklist. These are invitations.

There is an invitation to see where you are already practicing these AND a beckoning to maybe deepen a practice or to try it a different way than you have before.

How do you practice hospitality?

What does generous service look like for you?

How do you live this way not just on Sundays, but all week long?

The goal of the OUTward movement is to join God in mission. To discover, in Christ, that God is hospitable. To discover, in Christ, that God self-empties in generous service. To discover that God moves toward God’s creation in love and so God’s people move toward others and the rest of creation in love. Mission is love on the move.

Sterne helps us here when he writes this in a footnote about why he uses the phrase “Love on the move” to describe the mission of God:

One of the reasons I like to define mission as “love on the move” is because it captures how mission existed within the Trinity prior to creation and how it will continue after the consummation of new creation. The missio Dei (mission of God) is eternal. God’s love is always on the move within the Trinity and toward creation, and we join this movement now and forever.

Mission as “love on the move”

Mission as more than evangelism

Mission as going wide and deep

Mission as movement away from abstraction toward actual people and places Three practices:

Hospitality - this word might make you think about hostessing and Pinterest-perfect, magazine ready showhome - dining tables all fancy, house spotless, gourmet meal “effortlessly prepared”… and then we shrink away and say, “Oh, hospitality, that’s for someone else.” But that’s not thinking of hospitality rightly.

Sterne’s def’n of hospitality:  “always room for new people in our lives because there is always more room at God’s table”

By this definition, we can be hospitable in any location.

At home - whether our home could be featured in a magazine or not.

At work - or wherever you find yourself engaging with others - volunteering, interacting with actual neighbours, whatever.

Or as we’ve learned this year - out in a park, or on Zoom, or over the phone. Where do you encounter people? THAT’S where you’re invited to practice hospitality.

And then, yes, what are the ways in which you can contribute to welcoming others? Food often plays a role here, but it can be non-food, too. Gerry, I know you welcome people on hikes with you - encouraging folks to join in and explore this beautiful place we live. Terry & Janice, I know that you guys have experienced the hospitality of Gord & Bonita in some seriously practical “making room” sorts of ways. But we have also witnessed you five making room for us and for many others as you’ve spent time here and in France. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that a fellow Regent alum is going to be spending the summer up here - and this next week he moves into the Rowells. They have made room! Meeting people on driveways, in cafes and parks. Inviting people INto your lives - offering yourselves to others in lots of different ways. I could go on.

Hospitality. What we do when we realize that God always makes room… we join in.

So the question is where has God placed you? Who are your literal “neighbours”? Do you know their names? How can you welcome the people around you? (And do you know them?)

Generous service - meeting needs of others (all types of needs) mimics how Jesus demonstrated love on the move in self-emptying generosity

We see a physical, relational or spiritual need and we move towards it…

This doesn’t mean that we always meet every need we encounter. But it does mean that we know that sometimes when we see someone in need, it IS ours to respond. We can seek to always respond to the needs of people around us with grace and empathy, but we also have opportunity to sometimes go beyond being gracious and empathetic and actually meet the needs we enounter.

This can happen by serving within our church family - from leading us in worship to facilitating a small group or a breakout prayer room. From setting up a farewell event to serving in Kidnection Zone to make space for our youngest ones.

And then of course, it also happens in the wider community. Often the needs of the city of Kamloops might feel overwhelming. What can we possibly do to meet ALL THOSE NEEDS? But when we actually look at what needs move us most, and at what we have to offer (whether time or skill or ??)

Now, this is another spot where all I had to do was think about you all for a few minutes, and I could come up with a bunch of examples. Marilyn, Judy & Carol are at the Red Cross every week. Sheryl heads up a PIT stop team and because so many of you sign up to be on her team, and that work has earned SW a really good reputation with Rick and the crew down at KUC. Florence recently started volunteering at the Mt Paul Food Centre - and of course, we know that Florence and Reg often participate in MDS trips, helping out all sorts of people in all kinds of practical ways - and I hear they have another trip coming up!

Sometimes we do this kind of work for people we have connection to, and sometimes we do this kind of thing for the stranger.

Generous service. It can look like a million different things. But it is love on the move.

Faith all week long - the integration of faith into our everyday lives. Not just a Sunday morning kind of faith, but all seven days a week. What does it mean to be a Jesus follower when I’m at work, at home, at the gym, on the soccer field, at the grocery store, in volunteer work (whether in the church or the community), at the bank, on the internet, with my kids or grandkids, etc.

practicing hospitality and generous service in the places where we spend our days…not just in our faith communities or when we’re with other Christians

As people who declare that we seek to live and love like Jesus, we then seek to do so not just when we gather together, but also on a Tuesday afternoon and a Thursday morning, and late on Friday night.

So maybe the real question as we think of these practices is

Where is love on the move … where is Love moving towards others? Where is Love beckoning me to make space for someone else? Where is Love highlighting a need that I actually could meet? Where am I being invited to offer myself on behalf of someone else - and maybe even someone I don’t know?

Where is love on the move

… in my home?

… on my street?

… in my neighbourhood?

… in Kamloops? in the Interior? in BC? in Canada?

Where are you/we being invited to watch for opportunities to make room for others?

Where do we feel the “pinch” of moving over, so that there is room for someone new? Where do we resist that? Where do we draw the line and say, “No. Not for them!”

Now, let’s be honest with ourselves for a minute… this is where in church life, things can get really messy. Because as excited as we get to welcome new people into our church family, they also change us by their very existence.

And so, sometimes, this movement OUTward in mission can feel daunting. We will sometimes see other people moving OUTward and worry that God is asking us to do what they’re doing. And God will, God is inviting us to hear this part of the music too. To connect with a cause as our mission statement says. But God knows us. God knows who the invitation is going to. God knows how we’re made, how we are wired, what our passions and our biggest problems are. So, we can trust God’s invitation. Listen for the rhythm of this OUTward movement and just tap your toe. Nod your head. Sway to the music. Who knows what beautiful expressions of hospitality might come to be? What acts of gentle and generous service might be done - some in obvious ways, and many in quiet faithfulness behind the scenes. But the outpouring of what you have to offer will change you. Maybe even more than it will change the one whose needs are met. And as we learn to listen for this rhythm, we will discover that this rhythm doesn’t go out of earshot when we are at work or school, doesn’t necessarily get drowned out on the golf course or the hiking trail, in our weekly routines, whatever they may be… the music is inviting us. UP, IN, WITH and OUT.

May it be so.