This year our staff's covenant has the theme of
"practicing resurrection." The beautiful thing about our
covenant is that what "practicing resurrection" means, is different
for each and every one of us on staff at the Service-Learning Center. We
don't know, exactly, what will be...but I hope that as the year goes on we will
receive glimpses of what it means to "practice resurrection." I pray
that as we further reflect and act on the words in this covenant, that they
will lead us individually, and as a community.
Service-Learning Center 2013-2014 Staff
Covenant:
We practice resurrection, we don't know what
will be
with joy, we commit to:
Fostering a community that values
individuality
cultivating conversation and
imagination
Honoring the progress of
small steps and unhistoric acts.
Seeking justice within God's
improbable grace.
We don't know what will be; we practice
resurrection.
This year I hope our staff is able to foster
imagination, participate joyfully in unhistoric acts, seek justice, and overall
be a group of individuals who "practice resurrection" in all of its knowns...
and unknowns.
-Kelsey
Stark, Communications Coordinator
1 comment:
Once upon a time, I worked in the service-learning center at Calvin College, and occasionally I stop by this blog to see what kinds of conversation are happening. I like this staff covenant. Berry's notion of practicing resurrection has been firmly lodged in my mind since I encountered "Mad Farmer Liberation Front," and I was glad to see the reference in your staff covenant. In my own wanderings through the milieu of popular culture, I encountered these glimpses that seem to me to allude to a practice of resurrection.
Macklemore's song, "Starting Over" mentions these lyrics:
"If I can be an example of getting sober
Then I can be an example of starting over"
and Mumford and Sons' song, "Roll Away Your Stone"
It seems that all my bridges have been burned,
You say that's exactly how this grace thing works
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive with the restart
I think it is interesting to reflect on the significance of catching glimpses like these in music in particular. We don't just glimpse the lyric and sound once, but instead we hit the repeat button again and again. In the process, we practice attending to the glimpses of the practice of resurrection. I am thankful for those glimpses that linger as they do in a song.
-Bryan Kibbe (S-LC '06-'08)
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