@sssfCommunity End/ Moving into a common, social practice of gratitude and reciprocity powerfully reinforces the ultimate veracity of 'transformational', as distinct from 'transactional' reality, effectively grounding the body of Christ in ways that prove revelatory, therapeutic and welcoming.
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"Intentional communities of mutual self-reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing. Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of a gift economy, and they have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as they pass from hand to hand, a truly renewable resource." Robin Wall Kimmerer * And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away." Matthew 13:11-12
@RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace We are essentially eco-social beings, at once a planetary, convivial experience. Here in the PNW, indigenous, communal experience flourished around a bio-cultural model of community gathering which is, surprise, surprise, radically Christian in principle, practice and power.
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