C. WELTON GADDY
Well, here goes. I always have been reluctant to commit myself to writing anything on a daily or quasi-daily basis. However, as is true in so many other areas of my life, here too I have changed my mind.
Many of you regularly ask me, “Where have you been this week? What have you been doing? What are you reading? What are you thinking? What’s up next?”
Additionally, this peripatetic life, though always busy, often is a bit empty because of feeling away from and out of touch with people who are extremely important to me—the people who are Northminster Church, friends, loved ones, and individuals with whom interaction brings extraordinary richness to ordinary days.
So, I will take advantage of technology and see if I can use it sensitively to share, inform, connect with, and, if all goes well, sometimes even inspire people who care where I am geographically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as well as care about nurture for their own journey. If people find tracing my “tracks” helpful, I will continue this discipline. If not, likely with the relief that comes from finding more time, I will seek other ways of relating. The first Sunday in Lent is an opportune moment to begin.
Prayer
O God, as only can be done mysteriously with the aid of your Presence, through shared thoughts, words, and meditations, draw us closer together in order for us to know each other better, find strength in each other individually, and enable us together to model a community in which boundaries are absent and love is present—all developments to which you respond saying, “Good!”
