I’m up late tonight, getting things organized for this week-long conference that our team is attending. I tend to procrastinate packing until the last minute. I’ve been listening to Sun Kil Moon recently, thanks to Mr. Quade persuading me to give them another try…

I’m heading to bed soon, and will be gone for a week, but wanted to give you something to chew on in my virtual absence:

“The whole story of creation, incarnation and our incorporation into the
fellowship of Christ’s body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God,
as if we were that unconditional response to God’s giving that God’s
self makes in the life of the trinity. We are created so that we may be
caught up in this; so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of
God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.

The life of the Christian community has as its rationale – if not
invariably its practical reality – the task of teaching us this: so
ordering our relations that human beings may see themselves as desired,
as the occasion of joy.” 

- Rowan Williams