I've laid down a pattern for you. What I've done, you do. I'm only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. John 13:16

Audio: May I live this day read by Jane Edwards

The Otherworld describes being alive. Life, in all its glory, warts and all, so to speak. The Otherworld provides meaning by example, by exhibition, by illustration if you will.
The Paradise War, Stephen Lawhead

Finding our story in His story: Nesting

We started Lent with identifying patterns of development and transition making as we mature through adult life: Infatuation, nesting/manipulation, crisis, resolution and integration. These patterns we see particularly through the story around Jesus in Holy Week. Jesus's responses to Judas, to Caiaphas, to Herod and Pilate highlight their nesting - finding a place for themselves and their self-interest - gained through manipulation of circumstances: a concocted trial and two betrayals.

Simple enough?

In this scene Jesus says if you are not above me, then don't allow yourselves to get above and beyond humility and serving others, the role of servant and employee. There is nothing more than what is illustrated in washing someone's feet. Whatever else faith and Christianity is about Jesus points in his last few hours with his disciples directly to washing feet and then later to the communal eating of bread and drinking wine. Am I happy enough to locate and place my story within this, his simple story? I wonder what stance, attitude, responses I am making towards the life that is given to me by God.