Garden City Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

* “Is there something stirring in your heart that you feel like you just have to do? To let out? To try, whether you succeed or fail. Is there something that you feel like God’s put in your head that one day you’ll stand in front of your Maker and answer for?” * “What you do in the present - by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbour as yourself - will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we “leave it behind altogether”. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.” * “And the hope is that as we do whatever it is we do, people will see our work, and, shivering in the cold, will come a little closer, listen to the music, and maybe, just maybe, start to see that in the middle of all the sorrow and emptiness and trauma of this life, something new is brewing, seeping up through the ground, breaking in.”