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An Outsiders Embodied Message · Edition #12 · Deepening our Christianity
Deepening our Christianitythe Monday Newsletter of Paul PrinsEdition #12 · 31 July 2023 |
Blessings Reader, An Outsiders Embodied Message Currently, I’m flying home from a conference for ministers we help host in southern Spain. These events have subtly changed every one of these first seven years living in France. It is so hard to be away. Away from all you grew up knowing. To be an immigrant is to be an outsider. To be a minister sent in faith, hope, and love is to embody a message. There have been days when my excitement and energy felt unstoppable. The newness of this work, the listening, the learning, and the adventure of journeying into something so different. Paris is now normal. I am flying home - to Paris. I’m tired, and sore. It’s so hard to be away. Being with peers, colleagues, and friends is now a balm to my weary soul. This is hard work that is mostly thankless. But giving and receiving grace, compassion, and understanding from them is sweet. It helps sustain me in the midst of being an outsider with a message. An outsider with a word from God of rest, of hope, and of being completely and perfectly known. Until Next Week From my LifeThe conference in Malaga went really well. My talk turned out really nicely. I'll be publishing it later this week, and it will be included in the next weeks newsletter. Thank you to those of you who prayed for us. There was a lot on our plate and our schedule was quite full. You're prayers helped sustain us. Unpublished Photo for this Edition
Curated Goods just for YouI was away this week and not on social media. Nothing to share here. A Prayer for the Week to ComeLord, help us to hold being known and unknown together in shared moments. To have the same compassion for ourselves that you lavish upon us. No matter where we are - home, away, or drifting through the sky - let us sense you in the lovely quiet and tender moments you give us. |
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