Comments on: Always in the tension https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2024/02/27/always-in-the-tension/ A Global Immersion Site Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:55:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Steve Fawver https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2024/02/27/always-in-the-tension/#comment-344 Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:55:42 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1508#comment-344 Thank you so much for this sharing this and the challenges you faced. The honesty is refreshing. I noticed the phrase, “I was alone.” This caught my attention. You say, “This should never be…” and I agree and also it is difficult to change this at times.

I do hope you have support and encouragement in your current phase of life. I love the list you have on the fridge… such variety! I hope you can enter into some of these even this week… Thank you again for this post!

]]> By: Joanne Sorenson https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2024/02/27/always-in-the-tension/#comment-342 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 19:50:47 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1508#comment-342 ]]> Thank you for this wonderful sharing. Sadly, I can also relate, as my small town, small white Lutheran congregation in rural Wisconsin wasn’t at all interested in ministering to the community that was right there. “ let them come to us, we shouldn’t have to go help out at the schools.”…. so very disheartening. I appreciate that you wrote specifically what behaviors kept you going, the things you need to keep practicing. I do the same. Thank you so much.❤️

]]> By: Katie Calvert https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2024/02/27/always-in-the-tension/#comment-340 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:26:37 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1508#comment-340 “I wrestled with the patience it takes to exact transformation. I seemed to have infinite patience for those I ministered to – the ones who joined us on Sunday nights for a meal and liturgy. But, my patience was so thin for life-long Christians who couldn’t overcome their blindness.” My my. I resonate with this deeply! This is the kind of living that requires so much longsuffering, and it is hard. I love the ideas that you put on your fridge, as a kind of way to draw you back to yourself and to pull yourself out of discouragement. Thank you for sharing. I wanted to ask when you look back on those conversations with the senior pastor and other pastors, did you begin to see glimpses of hearts changing? seeing little glimpses can help us stay motivated and hopeful, so I hope you did, but if you didn’t, I wonder what that was like.

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