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Mar 22 2020
My checklist on my computer monitor
Thank you for showing up at my blog, and more importantly, for showing up as the body of Christ in our many contexts.
We have been smacked down by this pandemic. To make it through will require all of us, each one of us. It will also require all of us, our whole selves.
I keep a sticky note on my computer monitor with my personal checklist:
It’s a reminder, especially when I am stressed or overwhelmed, to go through my checklist, take stock of these dimensions of myself, and to devote attention and care to all of these capacities. This is more than self-care, it is self-equipping. We need all of us individually to serve all of us collectively.
As I am able, I will return as soon as possible to each of these “checklist capacities” in future posts, perhaps collaborating with some guest bloggers.
I’ll keep this short, because I want to offer you this five-minute meditation in song and images that affirms that “Everything is Holy Now” (photos are by Christine Valters Paintner, AbbeyoftheArts.com, and the song “Holy Now” is by Peter Mayer). This is true within us, and between us.
https://youtu.be/6VGastsEkyo
Rebecca Stoltzfus
I am learning eagerly and rapidly about AI and how it might change our work at Goshen College for the good. At the same time, I want to bring into clear focus what it means to be human. At GC, we are followers of the way of Jesus, who was God expressed in human form: born into a body, living among us and experiencing physical death. My word for the year is human.
I would like a top-down God. What Christmas offers us instead is a bottom-up God.
Last week Pope Leo XIV issued his first major writing to the global Catholic church, an Apostolic Exhortation – an urgent word of encouragement – on love for the poor, Dilexi Te. As a Mennonite, this theme caught my attention.