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Faithing-It 05: Community and Solitude
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Early in his sermon, Tim described the disconnection we experience from ourselves, from God, from each other, and from creation as part of the human reality.
He described Christian spirituality as “learning a set of stories and practices that cultivate a new imagination and way of being that can, rhythmically and over time, reconnect those fractured relationships.”
How much does this idea of essential disconnection resonate for you? Does it feel or seem true to you in your mind and/or experience of life?
When you consider yourself In relationship to yourself, to God, to each other, and to creation, does one of these stand out as feeling more or less connected than any of the others? Why do you think that might be?
Alongside your sense of disconnection (whatever it may be), do you have a parallel sense of reconciliation, recreation, and redemption as a part of your experience of living? Share about how you do, have, or might hope to experience this type of active re-connection in your life. What feelings surface as you imagine and sit with this vision of active reconnection as a part of your self and your life?
2. Tim taught that “loneliness is inner emptiness” that is sad and afraid. Solitude, by contrast, he described as an “inner fullness” that is “calm and brave…and, honestly, powerful.”
He also talked about the need most of us have to be witnessed and companioned in community so that we can feel safe enough to move into practices of true solitude.
What is the state of your relationship to solitude? What feelings surface for you as you consider and imagine the practice of solitude?
What is the state of your relationship to community? To what extent do you feel that your needs for community are or are not being met at this present time in your life?
What do you make of the causal link Tim described between community and solitude? Does it tally with your own experiences in any way? Share about how it does or does not.
If you feel that you would benefit from more time in solitude and or more authentic community, what things stand as barriers between you & those aims? Are there actions you are considering that might help to shift some of those things out of your path?
3. Over the last 4 weeks, we’ve learned about some core Christian practices:
Sabbath & tithing
Peacemaking & solidarity with outcasts
Weekly worship & daily prayer
Community & solitude
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