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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=3>The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard is executive
director of the Beatitudes Society based in Santa Barbara, CA. She also serves
as preacher-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara. </FONT>
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<H1>Finding Wild Space</H1>
<H2>John 2:1-11</H2>
<H2>Second Sunday after Epiphany - Year C</H2>
<H3>January 17, 2010</H3>
<DIV>...we can borrow three tools from Sallie McFague: first, living those
"cross-shaped" lives. As alternative a vision as the beatitudes of Jesus,
McFague's image of the cruciform life offers the same kind of invitation to a
transformed way of living. Cruciform living offers abundance through the
practice, she says, of "enoughness." We limit our consumption of the world's
resources in recognition of the needs of others.
<P>Second, she offers us some new house rules. We recognize the world as God's
home, the place that God became and still becomes incarnate, as McFague puts it:
"the 'glory' of God is not just heavenly, but earthly."<SUP>
</SUP> So if the world is God's home, we should abide by God's house
rules.</P>
<P><A
href="http://day1.org/1679-finding_wild_space">http://day1.org/1679-finding_wild_space</A></P>
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