Call

Lately, I have been so grateful for "Call." Call sustains me when I hit obstacles. I have a sense that God is active in my life, and has been preparing me for my whole life to plant the new spiritual community I have come to know as The Village Church.



There are times, in answering the call to plant a church, when I have hit walls in places that I expected to find encouragement. This quote from TS Eliot has sustained me. As I begin this new journey of "blogging" I share this encouraging word.



T. S. Eliot from The Family Reunion

In a world of fugitives the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. If the truth has made us odd, if we have not accommodated ourselves out of all recognition, then it will appear to some people that we're running away, that we're living an escapist existence, that we're outsiders, even outlaws -- whereas the truth is that we're the insiders, because we're bearing God's reality, not the world's. We are the true establishment, because we are building and inhabiting God's basilica, the commonwealth of eternity, not earth.

I look forward to being on this journey. I look forward to hearing your thoughts about Call and whatever else . . .

Cheri Holdridge