"If I am disconnected from community and isolated, my walk with God gets harder."
~Marcus Warner, "A Deeper Walk"
I recently got to cheer for several of my string students as they performed in "Bye Bye Birdie" with Red Curtain Theater. So proud of this bunch! Just before the show began, the woman sitting next to me gushed about how her small granddaughter had been welcomed and included by the theater family, despite the granddaughter's inexperience and young age.
Katherine and I continue to chip away at "sewing school" with my mom. I'm really grateful for her investment of time, energy, and patience. We've had all sorts of sweet conversations as we picked out seams and talked about our spiritual walks and ironed and made quick trips to Hobby Lobby for the things we forgot to buy earlier.
As the bush beans wane in the summer heat, my long beans are taking off. Soon we will have these reminders of the Solomon Islands on our plates. I'm surprised at how much joy my little garden brings me. I've been thinking about Ikigai lately, a term I learned at some of my professional development. It's a Japanese term that goes beyond answering the question of what gets you up each morning. The term encompasses "the intersection of passion, talent, and benefit to others", and finding a diagram with overlapping spheres to determine one's own ikigai is easy. Information about this way to approach life abounds and encourages me to be intentional about how I spend my time and energy to build my community.
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