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Happy New Year!
Recently I’ve been focusing on the communal nature of Epiphany. Especially after taking a solo trip to Croatia and surrounding countries on my two-month sabbatical last fall (more about that in a different newsletter), I’ve been pondering what it means to journey together.
The holy family. The wise men. Later, Jesus and the disciples. No one traveled alone.
This resonates with me because I know what I see and what I too have experienced: So many pastors feel they are alone.
This morning I was reading a blog by the brilliant Kendra Creasy Dean on the struggle adults have to find and make friends. She quoted the joke that “Jesus’s greatest miracle was that he had 12 best friends in his 30s!”
Kendra notes, “Jesus had 12 BFFs in his 30s because he chose to have them.” They ate and drank together. They moved around together. They talked about changing the world together. They chose to do life together.
If I could wave a magic wand all the pastors everywhere would have good friends. They would not feel alone. (Of course, I would want no one to feel alone.)
Keep reading Sara's full message this month on the SOLT website.
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