Where Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy Meet…
I’ve been getting more fresh air lately. Normally this time of year I find myself holing up in a library somewhere biting my nails and hoping that I’ll wake up to find finals and papers behind me. But this semester, I’m determined to stay out with my community, so like a crotchety grandpa I sit in a camping chair reading books and saying hello to those that live around me.
It is amazing to see how much life just passes you by when you hide inside your house all the time. Spending more time outside in these cooler days causes me to see just how easy it is to “love your neighbor”, because you are truly creating time to be available to them. As crazy as this sounds, I’m even trying to work my “break time” into “prayer block-walks” where I pray for each family and house around my block as I break from studies.
This new perspective on studying and living life is one of those incentives from the Greenhouse conference last weekend. I hope that my eyes to God’s workings in this neighborhood be opened wider and wider! How do you see God already working in the lives of those you are surrounded with?
