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17 miles up. 5600 feet. It was cold.
Of course "going to church" in Second Life still seems more amusing than completely serious. If it were the opposite, I'd worry I was entering into some sort of Matrix lifestyle. I think what is interesting about Second Life is that it does provide an opportunity to "worship" without actually having to go long distances -- or any distance -- to a physical church. In my case, I now live a little further out of Seattle than I might have thought possible while still claiming to live in the "Seattle area".
Anyhow, here is the text of the query for Friends Meeting for Worship: October 3, 2009
Centering Thoughts
"We get most upset with those we love the most because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses…If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us…We can love others with their failure when we stop despising ourselves because of our failures."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Reflect on these words of Desmond Tutu and how they may reveal truth to you about your relationship to God and to other people.
I enjoyed listening to this 30 minute radio piece about silence, part of a bbc series called "Something Understood." It touched on how silence can rejuvenate and how it can hurt. The intro:
Silence is something many of us crave in a world full of clamour, but, as Fergal Keane discovers, it means much more than the mere absence of noise.