Enriching community

“There are many forms of poverty: economic poverty, physical poverty, emotional poverty, mental poverty, and spiritual poverty. As long as we relate primarily to each other’s wealth, health, stability, intelligence, and soul strength, we cannot develop true community. Community is not a talent show in which we dazzle the world with our combined gifts. Community is the place where our poverty is acknowledged and accepted, not as something we have to learn to cope with as best as we can but as a true source of new life. Living community in whatever form - family, parish, twelve-step program, or intentional community - challenges us to come together at the place of our poverty, believing that there we can reveal our richness.” (Henri Nouwen)
 
It has been my privilege to be a part of theRubicon community for the past three years. As each of us has written, spoken and commented together as a community, wrestling with ideas, affirming and adopting convictions and voicing doubts… and as we have shared out of our collective poverty - this has been one of the most enriching experiences of my life. Thank you. I look forward to continuing the journey with each of you.
 
Geoff Ryan

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