Status Updates From Field Notes for the Wildern...

It takes such holy audacity to choose a new path when the old ways turn into dead ends for you. It takes guts to realize that God is bigger than a church, a tradition, an interpretation. We are learning to receive, not control. We are learning to improvise, to play again, and to reclaim our joy. I’m thinking of you tearing up your scripts, tossing pieces in the fire and whooping under the full moon.

Joy is never intellectually, emotionally or spiritually dishonest. Nor is it doubling down on “we’re fine, everything is fine” when things are clearly not fine. Joy isn’t a good time earned through denial or performative sentimentality. Moments of joy don’t erase reality, they are a part of it. It isn’t only sad and tragic things that are real; redemption is real, renewal is real, joy is still real.

Wow :’)