Wednesday Lenten Sermon Series - An Altar in the World: Practice NOT Perfect
See below for a series description. Most of us don’t have to carry water. In fact, most of us live in a culture that devalues physical labor. This week we practice serving physically to see that hauling brush, doing laundry, picking up trash, and yes carrying water are holy practices just as much as prayer or fasting.
An Altar in the World: Practice NOT Perfect
In An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor takes twelve ordinary experiences of human life and invites us to see them as spiritual practices. What if our spirituality was shaped not only by prayer, and worship, and sacraments – but also by getting lost, and paying attention, and in physical labor? What if our spirituality was shaped not by a quest for perfection but rather by continual practice? “My hope,” she writes, “is that reading [this book] will help you recognize some of the altars in the world – ordinary-looking places where human beings have met and may continue to meet up with the divine More that they sometimes call God
An Altar in the World: Practice NOT Perfect
In An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor takes twelve ordinary experiences of human life and invites us to see them as spiritual practices. What if our spirituality was shaped not only by prayer, and worship, and sacraments – but also by getting lost, and paying attention, and in physical labor? What if our spirituality was shaped not by a quest for perfection but rather by continual practice? “My hope,” she writes, “is that reading [this book] will help you recognize some of the altars in the world – ordinary-looking places where human beings have met a