The trip to Albuquerque was a better trip, although I'm not sure the outcome of our meetings was any better. (Well, maybe a little) But, I'm back home now and getting ready to go to Pinetop tomorrow afternoon - after I take my Greek final in the morning.
One of the Nouwen readings while I was gone this week really hit that missional part of me (again!). Here is what he writes about us being like Jesus and being in the world:
To be lifted up into the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit does not mean, however, to be taken out of the world. On the contrary, those who have entered into the spiritual life are precisely the ones who are sent into the world to continue and fulfill the work that Jesus began. The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Life in the Spirit of Jesus is therefore a life in which Jesus' coming into the world - his incarnation, his death, and resurrection - is lived out by those who have entered into the same obedient relationship to the Father which marked Jesus' own life. Having become sons and daughters as Jesus was Son, our lives become a continuation of Jesus' mission.
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