Restoring connectedness

Last week Finland got to follow the main newspapers gossiping the incident of the recently divorced prime minister Matti Vanhanen asking a woman for a date by text message. In many ways hilarious, but also somehow sad incident that makes one once again wonder the amount of isolation and disconnectedness in our world.

Talking about the church of the future, I think building new dimensions of connectedness is one of the real healing elements needed. But where do we start since people in most pubs are more connected than average church goers? These days I realise in my own life that confronting your own hurts and not accepting the easiest solutions to get rid of bad feelings helps you to identify with those whose life is more than complicated on many levels. Just thinking how radical the promise of bringing orphans and widows into families actually is. Many ways the very heartbeat of the gospel...but where have we been...building our programs and fixing our walls just to exclude one more time. Following Jesus in a new way, maybe more missionally, building connections to the world all around us has been a painful experience for me, stripping me of fixed answers...yet making me understand in so much deeper level creation's need for God's involvement...and  our  need for  incarnational theology.

I might be writing some posting with some deep tones in the coming days and weeks...since I feel like the fellowship of the ring in the mines of Moria hearing the drums from deep places...like disciples in the Garden when those sent for Jesus came; will I reach my sword and fight or will I share in his death and resurrection and maybe one day find a solid foundation of incarnational ...love?   

Comments

[Tim the Enchanter]

I enjoyed reading this Niina. You make some very good points. Spot on!