Not Where, But How?
My Year in Review (2018)
When you have the expectation that God’s Will is a place — with perfect coordinates; a Divine Secret that you must decode.
you ask,
‘where are you?’
i’m nowhere.
i’m everywhere,
all over the place.
i’m in-between.
today,
i have believed deeply,
and i have had nothing to believe.
it is not that i’m changing for others around me,
it is just that i can see the world both ways.
i feel a deep anchor of life within me,
and yet i also cannot fully commit
to the certainty-filled life i once knew
where am i?
must i be somewhere?
or could i be on my way and right here,
at the same time?
could i be present in the in-between?
could the real question be how?
how will i be here,
wherever that may be?
- Scott Scrivner, Not Where, But How?
I’ve never been a pirate, but I can imagine that location is a big deal, right? We’ve all seen the pirate maps that lead to a treasure chest. As you look at the map at this station — you’ll notice there are a whole lot of treasure’s marked with big RED X’s.
Think about it. We all have some treasure we are going for — that WAY we long to live.
It’s HOW not WHERE, remember?
Find any “x”
Choose one to claim as your own.
Write or draw
Write a word (or draw an image) that represents your, “How Will I Be Here?” in 2018. If you’d like, this map needs some detail. Add some terrain, get creative — use the pens and pencils available.
The next several articles will include the content from the two evenings we prepared/encountered over two Sundays as a community. But you can download the full PDF.