Don’t Go Back to Normal (https://brianmclaren.net/dont-go-back-to-normal/)

Liewe gemeente (ek lees nou van `n nuwe term:"Die virtuele liggaam van Christus"),

Ek is altyd huiwerig om `n gedig te deel. Gedigte is persoonlik, en verskillende mense ervaar gedigte anders. Verder is hierdie spesifieke gedig uit die pen van Brian Mclaren, een van die progressiewe denkers rondom kerkwees en christenwees( té progressief vir baie mense😉). Nogtans kan ek nie anders as om dit te deel nie, want dit het my nogal diep getref. Mclaren kyk nie net hoopvol (soos gelowges behoort te doen!) na `n huidige krisissituasie nie, maar hy het my ook laat nadink oor my verantwoordelikhede teenoor die gemeente,my medemens, my gesin en myself. Ek deel dit met julle:

Don’t Go Back to Normal (https://brianmclaren.net/dont-go-back-to-normal/)

When this is over,
Don’t treat it like a virus
That allows you to pick up where you left off,
Feeling better, feeling normal, feeling as good as before.
Treat it like puberty.
When it is over, you’ll never be the same again.
It will leave its mark on you.
You’ll leave behind what you were before
Forever.
You will gain new capacities, new desires, new responsibilities,
New challenges.
Your voice will change.
Every month or so, your body
Will remind you that you are part of something bigger
Than the games you have been playing so far.
You’ll still be you, of course,
But you’ll have seen things, known things, felt things,
That you can’t unsee, unknow, or unfeel.
The worst thing that could happen to you
Is to return to the old normal, because
A new adventure
A new chapter
A new maturity awaits.

— Brian D. McLaren
Groete!
Sterkte met julle inperkingstyd
Ds Johan