Markus Watson, host of the “Spiritual Life and leadership” Podcast recently interviewed Tom Sine and myself regarding our book, 2020s Foresight: Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerating Change.
The Podcast will be available December 21st.
I am so grateful to have an opportunity to encourage people to look to our collective future with resurrection hope. Increasingly, it is my prayer that we might foster a spirituality that blesses, honors and listens to our fears… and then – in the spirit of Christ’s “not my will, but thine be done” – move toward our fears with openness, courage, and love.
When we listen to our fears and talk about them with others, we can better anticipate what is likely coming our way. And as we develop a better sense of what might be on the horizon we can search the scriptures, church history, and listen for the invitation from the Spirit coming to us through the the very thing we fear. Then, once we can imagine the Spirit of God inviting us to discover and practice an a faith filled response we can experiment, and innovate; we can try something rather than retreating and waiting for the thing we fear to wash over us. Denying reality, burying our sand, or retreating into escapist fantasies seems incongruent with loving God and loving neighbor as we love ourselves. There are some very real challenges coming our way in the next decade. This is our change to follow Christ into a new way of life and love. Love casts out fear.
Kinda makes me think of something Bonhoeffer once said:
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thanks Markus for inviting us to your podcast it was great to be with you. Loving what you’re doing.
Peace, dwight
