Riverbanks make a river possible. Limitations facilitate flow.
Riverbanks aren’t absolutely rigid; they aren’t permanently fixed. Flow affects limitations.
The reciprocity of a river and its banks teaches me things about the paradoxes of faith-life: focused and flowing -- settled and questing...
The current is power, direction, intention, movement... submitting to boundaries.
The banks are shape, form, structure, support... organic and malleable, responding to the stream of change.
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Let's dive a little bit deeper into this river. What ultimately produces the observable phenomenon of "flow" for a course of water is the invisible force of gravity.
And therefore, brothers and sisters, I would submit that God's invisible force of grace is just what will get us into His "flow"... and carry the Church downstream with as much effort on our parts as Tom Sawyer exerted to get his raft downstream.
(PS... watch out for those sandbars, boulders, submerged snags and especially those folks who want to jump on your raft and play "pilot".
Hey Rev', this is a strong offering! You'd better be careful or your readers will get the impression you've been transformed from smart-alec to sage. (Or maybe you see yourself as a juxtaposition of the two?)
Well SB... I DO hold to the Pauline theology of being a "Greek to the Greeks and a Roman to the Romans".
As a matter of Biblical fact... many who listened to Paul preach in the marketplace in Ephesus were heard to remark, "This guy's a real wise-ass!"
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