Thursday, March 1, 2007
The Time Gift
The time gift section of Peterson's book hit home in this season of Lent. The 40 days, even though rather dark, are the gift of time. Marty's book stretches me in a new way; some different ways of being church - Lent gatherings, extinquishing candles through the season, doing a Lent series - have helped to notice the time of it. I'm still struggling with the rush on some days, and with the voices in/around me that want to push in, but the intentional season helped to grasp Peterson's point better. There is the notion of God-glimpse for us - this book section read during Lent; the gnostic reminder when churches contemplate leaving; the cohort itself when we each longed for companions on the way.
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Tracie, I agree with you that it is good reading this section on "time" during Lent. I love how our liturgical seasons help us be intentional about paying attention to the gift that time is. Peterson says that "hours and days, weeks and months and years, are the very stuff of holiness" (65). Of the two ways we desecrate time (hurry and procrastination), I tend to be a procrastinator...and then I'm always hurrying to catch up because I've wasted time! I love that he called "ordinary time" a GIFT through which we participate in the present and daily work of God (67). I long to receive this gift by living FULLY in each hour and minute God gives me and looking for the purpose and significance of where God is working in the "ordinariness" of my life.
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