For the Joy of the Journey

From Eugene Peterson “Practice Resurrection”:

Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project. Individualism is self-ism with a swagger. The individualist is the person who is convinced that he or she can serve God without dealing with God. This is the person who is sure that he or she can love neighbors without knowing their names. This is the person who assumes that “getting ahead” involves leaving other people behind. This is the person who, having gained competence in knowing God or people or world, uses that knowledge to take charge of God or people or world.

“If we calculate the nature of the world by what we can manage or explain, we end up living in a very small world.”
Eugene Peterson

“… The ideology of our time is that we can live ‘an uncalled life’, one not referred to any purpose beyond one’s self.”
Walter Brueggeman