mass email

I was going to email this to my mom. And Amanda. And Steph. And maybe Carl. And then I realized I should just make it a blog post because I think it might interest a lot of people.

It has to do with something I have been saying and feeling for a while now - the need to plant myself in one place and stay there. Not because I don't like adventure, but because I don't believe adventure and staying in one geographical place to be contradictory. I have fully explored while I've been here. Now I'm ready to go and be in one place. All these thoughts were running through my mind when I stumbled across this blog entry about the book The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture. I have not read it, but I think I'd like to!

Here is a selection that I like:

As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.

Should you ever leave the place where you are? I don’t know. But I trust we are able to best discern the call of God in the company of friends when we are rooted in the life-giving wisdom of stability.