tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14229312.post112810515234850490..comments2023-05-13T09:16:17.585-06:00Comments on FollowingFrodo: Getting at the roots...Gordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03767921257861340046noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14229312.post-1128789265650822942005-10-08T10:34:00.000-06:002005-10-08T10:34:00.000-06:00Great post. Welcome to the blog ring.Great post. Welcome to the blog ring.will smamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06632209393133155385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14229312.post-1128171651595730012005-10-01T07:00:00.000-06:002005-10-01T07:00:00.000-06:00This really resonates with me, Gord. We had a sess...This really resonates with me, Gord. We had a session with Rob Dalgliesh of General Council, whose job it is (partly) to help congregations in transition look at themselves and make the best transition possible.<BR/><BR/>One of his questions was, "What pain is there for you? What have you lost that you once had?"<BR/><BR/>We are lucky. Our little place has a short history and relatively few traditions, but the really grieving, in-denial, in-pain places I'd say are those with a century or so of life, an old beautiful barn of a building, and clear memories of things like bursting Sunday School populations.<BR/><BR/>You are dead on: the future will not be the past, nor will it necessarily be a death. But it will be something we cannot now imagine. Or possibly something we refuse to imagine until it actually happens to us.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16052081819882002321noreply@blogger.com