Comments on: Maybe it’s about the struggle? (beloved practice with the news) https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/03/18/maybe-its-about-the-struggle-beloved-practice-with-the-news/ A Global Immersion Site Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:09:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Shawn McConaughey https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/03/18/maybe-its-about-the-struggle-beloved-practice-with-the-news/#comment-626 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:09:07 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=2143#comment-626 “Then I realized something in me had become numb”. This is great self-awareness. It has helped push me to respond to my own numbness. Thanks for wrestling with this.

]]> By: Kassandra Quick-Vana https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/03/18/maybe-its-about-the-struggle-beloved-practice-with-the-news/#comment-623 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:38:33 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=2143#comment-623 Colin, I so appreciate these words: I am in this cohort to struggle with this seemingly unattainable desire to look at what’s happening around me and be able to say “I am beloved. You are beloved. We are beloved”, not just in a blog post, but in my heart and in my body, and hopefully begin to live it too.

When people have asked me why I am part of this cohort, I have had many answers related to peacemaking and justice and the desire to bring these to my sphere of influence. And though I am certainly familiar with the concept of belovedness, never before did it factor into what I desired to gain from this experience. Your words perfectly express what I now feel as an awakened desire, an opportunity for growth through the struggle. Thank you for helping me recognize this through your words!

]]> By: Steve Lindley https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/03/18/maybe-its-about-the-struggle-beloved-practice-with-the-news/#comment-611 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:09:45 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=2143#comment-611 Wow. This is beautiful and moving and challenging, Colin. I am grateful to be with you in the struggle.

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