It is in the undefined space between a human nature based on free will and a divine nature existing as pure creative love that the church must find its true calling. It's small wonder, though, that some of us are seeking refuge in a past that never was, or clinging to a tradition that was meant to nourish but never to limit. It is fitting, then, that in this hot and beloved month of July we should celebrate not only our national freedom but the more spacious freedoms of mind and spirit without which no others can exist. The dance of human and divine is an exploration of the freedom of God. Such a giving requires courage.
Freedom is never a gift but a thing bought at a cost.
To enter into God's will for our time is to give ourselves as messengers of a dream, as ongoing partners in the love that saves.