the friesen blog

So it's been a while since I've posted.  But since then I had a great weekend with my parents who came out from Victoria.  My dad and I re-wired the upstairs of our house.  Good Times!  It was actually some great father and son bonding over electrical equipment. 

A Confession 

In the last week I have had some pretty interesting experiences which have changed my heart and mind forever.  I hope to blog about them soon.  I will just say at this point that I have been blown away at the beauty and hope of church community.  My journey church community thus far has taken me from (and I HATE these labels but I will use them for now) "traditional" church to the "pomo / emerging" church back to a very progressive "traditional" church.  When I was emersed in the "pomo / emerging" church I was very skeptical of the depth of community that could exist in "traditional" churches.  I was so wrong.  I was young and idealistic.  I used to think that those 'old people' did not understand the new wave of what is going on.  I sinned when I had those thoughts.  For anyone that I might have judged.  I am sorry.  Please forgive me for thinking that I had it all together.  I did not.  I do not. 

I have tasted the increadible beauty of community when I was hanging in Seattle with my Quest friends.  But although we talked about diversity we were all fairly similar.  I have recently seen the increadible beauty of community in actual diversity and it is gorgeous.

Thanks to Leanne and my parents and grandparents for teaching me about community.

I would also like to thank some others who shared their life with me.

Dwight & Lynette, Pascal
Ken & Michelle, Shelby, Payton
The whole Reid clan
Ken
Trevor
Russ & Dinah
Nathan
Sam & Jackie
Andy
Peter
Bill
Heather and Carrie
Brian and Nat
Mike Moffat - not the character on Sienfield, although I guess him to...
Ian & Shar
Richard and Brendan - rock on my friends
UT - rock on 1984
Brendan Manning
Henri Nouwen
Jeff & Heather
The Freeway gang
Jamie & Melissa
my new MHBC friends
Amy and Steve

The list could continue for a long time.  I could keep on listing people since there are so many more.  Thanks for sharing yourself with me and helping make me the person I am today.

peace.

dallas