Last weeks feig saw Diocesan Missioner Andrew Braddock visiting. During the evenings discussions I remembered a conversation I had had some time ago. I can't remember who it was with but it was about the nature of church mission.
Somehow the conversation had lead us to nautical terminology. Reflecting upon our experiences of church mission we felt it had too closely resembled the tactics of battleships or the lure of an entertainment cruise. Either trying to shell people into submission or dazzle them with promises of unrivaled pleasures.
We concluded, at least in that moment, that we are more like deck hands for Columbus. All of us exploring through fog and high seas aboard a sail boat. Nowhere more exhilarating or terrifying, nowhere more uncertain or hopeful.
Every metaphore falls down somewhere but until then, may God bless Feig and all who sail in her.
dp
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