Christians have long lived in denial of our deep creaturely connections.
Season after Pentecost | 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Genesis 28:10-19a; Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24; (Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19 or Isaiah 44:6-8; Psalm 86:11-17;) Romans 8:12-25; Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
We have forgotten how to dream the land.
An insight I gleaned from Ernest Hemingway rings true for the mainline church today.
And what would happen if we didn't?
People do not float through life in the bubble that is their skin. We are grounded, dependent beings that live through the lives and deaths of others.