Learning to Work in the Dark

It's one thing to know what to do.
It's another thing altogether, to be able to do it.

Working in the dark is learning how to navigate when you don't have a map, it's being able to think clearly under pressure, it's making decisions with inadequate information, it's letting your brain win when your heart wants to fight, it's paying attention to your heart when your mind is saying something different, it's loving when you don't feel like it...

Jesus was trying to tell his disciples that things were about to get deadly difficult and that things were about to get Eternally Good.  As Tom Waits says,
"When there's nothing left to keep you here, when
You're falling behind in this
Big blue world

Oh you go to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here
You got to hold on"

‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. The crowd answered him, ‘We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?’ Jesus said to them, ‘The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.’

John 12:27-36

This Sunday, 3/22/15 we'll meet at 5 at the Wesley Cottage and begin by playing some games with some "confusing factors" added in. We'll be reflecting on doing the right thing when things are most difficult.

For dinner we'll make burritos. I'll bring tortillas and salsa. You bring what you want to go with it and coordinate it by replying to the email so others can see what your bringing.

Peace,

Rob