Much of life exists in paradox. The sun is shining as kids play with friends in the front yard and ride bikes around the neighborhood, and I answer a group Facetime call so my siblings and I can talk to our grandpa, many miles away, and encourage him to hold onto life so his daughters can make it in time to say goodbye. Pain and heartache juxtapose with joy and life, and we live in the tension. To be human is to experience both, and often as parallels. Today we will hold the tension of both/and while we talk about how to make a splash with our summer—because a missional life doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

To make a splash, we must get wet—and in terms of missional living, that looks like sitting with our neighbors sometimes through the messy and hard parts of life as well as those that abound with joy. It means we don’t shy away from or minimize the seasons of life that are hard to navigate. It means we invite God into all the pieces because only He can piece together beauty when brokenness is all we see. It means we embrace the both/and.

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Links mentioned:

Morning Routine Your Summer 2020

Cultivating a Life Worth Imitating