John Van Haneghan has been participating in Organic Faith for nearly 3 years. He lives in Buffalo and currently works for the Buffalo Philharmonica Orchestra.
Hello friends. On Wednesdays we often meet in the club house and have a few beers. This particular Wednesday we had a quite the large crowd of enthusiastic individuals gathered together for community, show and tell, and beverages.
This reading that was shared with us by Pastor Nate and was read before and after our group discussion.
"I love the traditional Hindu greeting - namaste. It means, 'I see and I greet the hidden wholeness in you.' No matter how you appear, how weak or sick or different from me you are, I can see past that to the wholeness in you. And I bow to that in you. Because I have learned to see your potential, I can befriend it and enable it to become a little more visible in this world, a little closer to the place that you live from every day. When you see something in another person and acknowledge it, you strengthen it. And so in your presence they may experience a greater potential in themselves, maybe for the first time." - Dr. Rachel Remen
This. This sums up a lot of what pub church is. This week was no exception to that rule. Through our conversations. Our conflicts, and our celebrations we become something bigger, something greater than ourselves. For us, we see this as God working through each of us, creating a wholeness.
When we gather together, each person may share some something going on with there life. They can use the reading to guide it, or they can go on a tangent. But one thing is always true, God is working through these stories, these items we share always help us become something larger than ourselves.
Through stories of being content, being restless, being uncertainty, and having too much certainty, we saw God Wednesday evening.
