I have been bemoaning the struggle to get out of our boxed in thinking as churches, even when we try to be different it still ends up box shaped, despite the decorations that try and pretend otherwise.
In talking to a friend earlier today about these frustrations she reached for a little booklet someone had lent her only a few days before, and what she read out was so spot on that I share it here with you....
From a small booklet printed 1988 called 'In Simplicity of Prayer' by Sister Mary Clare SLG
"We must try to understand the meaning of the age in which we are called to bear witness.
We must accept the fact that this is an age in which the cloth is being unwoven.
It is therefore no good trying to patch.
We must rather set up the loom on which coming generations may weave new cloth according to the pattern God provides."
We must accept the fact that this is an age in which the cloth is being unwoven.
It is therefore no good trying to patch.
We must rather set up the loom on which coming generations may weave new cloth according to the pattern God provides."
So no wonder I am frustrated with my darning needle, and yet so far from seeing what the new pattern is - first a new loom has to be set up, different weft and weave.
Still would like the set up instructions....
Thanks Avila - that's a really wonderful quote.
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