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| The Northern Uintas near Kings Peak + August 2011 |
As we prepare for the April 2012 assembly of our church, we would like to invite you to join us in conversation by sharing pictures, stories, questions and videos about your and our “landscape of faith”. This can be an exterior landscape, i.e. where you live, worship and work, or an interior landscape, i.e. how you live, worship and work in relationship to your place, your geography, your community, your interior formation in faith.
Each week we will offer you an opportunity to prepare for the assembly through a photograph, a story, a quote, a prayer, a specific practice, a question to ponder, all to invite you in to this assembly topic. Your responses will be posted and we hope thus to begin a conversation amongst us all. Pastor Kari Reiquam and I will moderate the discussion and offer the questions, photos, art and quotes to move the conversation along. We look forward to your posts, your ideas, your resources and your interest.
We are fortunate to live in a “place” of incredible beauty and variety with deserts, cities, high plains, mountains, vast open spaces. Our landscape is also marked by great challenges, by the damages we ourselves have inflicted upon the creation. Landscape beckons us to the ways of God. All these invite us to ask, how is God present (or absent) in our landscape? To what are we called? To use Walter Brueggeman’s language, “Are we landed?”
We look forward to hearing from you.
Pastor Kari Reiquam
Pastor Jeffrey Louden
www.rmselca.org
Synod Assembly Planning
As I was driving home from the Rocky Mountain Synod theological conference today, I steered off at the Highway 66 exit, where the landscape is dominated by the twin peaks of Mt. Meeker and Longs Peak which rise to the west. This landscape anchors me to my heritage and home -- a native of Longmont, Colorado. These are the twin peaks that were the backdrop of my childhood and youth, and they anchor me, still. I took a couple photos and made one of them the banner of my Facebook Timeline page, to share this landscape of such significance to me with others.
ReplyDeleteRain on the way home yesterday. We stopped at Saratoga,WY to soak in the Hobo Hot Springs...hot water from the mystery of the bowels of the earth, flowing next to the North Platte. The three of us remembered our baptism at 106 degrees....and then we drove home, rain turning to snow....
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