listen and see

Three days of conversation concludes with voiceless people standing looking at one another. It is astounding how long a group of people can stand together and look into one another's eyes without speaking. Eyes going about the group and making contact one at a time.
For three days the conversation was non-stop. Incredibly important dialogue and ideas concerning the Church Emerging. If THE church, yours and mine, traditional, contemporary, reformed, wesleyan, seeker, liturgical, is going to emerge as healer and shaper of hurting and malformed culture, who and how should we be? We felt as if God were fueling our conversation, speaking to us through one another. Then this morning, after prayer, poems, prayer, encouragement, prayer, eucharist - he closed our mouths and asked us to look around at representatives of his church and listen to his voice and go. We listened deep within our hearts and looked deep into one another and saw beautiful things that even days of conversation couldn't show us.