A best practice that our team employs supplements our regular “business” meetings with additional “book club” conversations. Each year we select 2 or 3 different readings- sometimes books, sometimes articles- that we identify as helping to support our professional and personal growth. Especially as a remote team, I find this practice a unifying experience. This morning we wrapped up our final “book club” discussion of the year, and I share an excerpt below.
“We have to imagine communities where more attention is paid to openness and welcoming of those who come from outside than to go to the protection and defense of whose who are inside. Communities that are more concerns with building bridges than building walls.” Good idea, thanks to Brother Antonio Botana, FSC in MEL 58 (p. 91).
Also I am pleased to cut and paste one more pearl of wisdom from a weekly email from the Center for Action and Contemplation:
“Love may or may not provide a way through to a solution to our predicament, but it will provide a way forward in our predicament, one step into the unknown at a time. Even if we lose hope for a good outcome, we need not lose hope of being good people.”
—Brian D. McLaren
Blessings on your week ahead!
Keeping the Faith 