A Final Word
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y experience of the power of God’s transforming love continues. And so does yours. I invite you to join me on the journey.
Do you want the church to burn like a warm fire in the hearth, giving light and peace to all the family? Do you want to help create bridges we can build between the two worlds we inhabit so we can learn to live together with respect and love?
Join me on this journey of compassion, grace, and generosity. Do you want to experience a love that listens, a love that is freely given, a love that is given with open hands? The path of love is difficult. It is nearly impossible when we travel it alone. It becomes easier when we walk together.
Would you initiate a Safe Place group in your congregation, community, or denomination to help create a network such as I have proposed? Call a few people today and invite them to join you. Each of you invite someone else. Begin meeting. Invite others to begin gatherings in their area. And may the transforming love of God empower you.
May the love of God unite us through the Spirit and make us one in Jesus Christ that all the world will know that we are his disciples because we have love for one another.
Resources
On the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius:
David L. Fleming, S.J. Draw Me Into Your Friendship: The Spiritual Exercises, A Literal Translation & A Contemporary Reading. [The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, 1996]
On the Enneagram:
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele. The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People. [HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1994]
Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert. Discovering the Enneagram: An Ancient Tool for a New Spiritual Journey. [The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York, 1990]
On Peacebuilding:
STAR (Seminars on Trauma Awareness and Recovery), a joint program of the Conflict Transformation Program and Church World Service - Contact the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22802.
