This is has been floating around my head the last couple of years, we need to live in a rhythm..
1towards God
2towards other within our faith
3towards the rest of the world.
sequentially and cyclicly.
Prayer is an integral part of this circlur movement.. The foundation, the first part. I would love if we could get together every day like the monks of old and pray together.. but that seems impossible, how can we develop a rhythm of prayer and mission in this day? A even harder question is: How can we do it communally?
Easy (easier) to accomplish with a youth group at church, or student ministry, but what does a rhythm of prayer and mission look like for a single working mom?
any thoughts?
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Pierre, I love the rhythm idea, but I do not relate [at all] with the idea with praying like monks....
ReplyDeleteTo me a rhythm should be part of a time, a culture, an era, so to speak. Rhythm is directly connected with the 'signs, sounds and movements of the times'. And also, rhythm in life is living incarnationally.
So, that idea of rhythm to me should be very much in sync with 2009, South Africa, Africa, The Western World, The World....
{I am wondering why there are a seemingly growing number of people who seems to idolise the spirituality of those 'monk' ages. I am very open to learning more in order to maybe discover something that I miss or do not understand, but so far, it is a spirituality of a 'time gone by', and therefor you will not get the shape of it into the shape of our time...}
We should discover the rhythm of OUR time.
agreed, yet post modern times are characterised by taking bits and pieces from the past and present culture and forming a new whole. So taking a piece from ancient times (like the house church model as well ;) ), is exactly being incarnational...
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