Calling from a Sense of Place
I would like to invite you into a journaling activity this week. We at the Institute for Leadership and Service like to promote reflection. We think of it as a muscle we can exercise. You know, how strong muscles are just kind of “nice to have” until one day when you need to move a couch or pick up a child, and then those muscles become absolutely necessary. Similarly, reflection may seem superfluous, until the day we kind of just need to know what we think about a subject. OK, the reflection activity. Get out a writing instrument and your journal, or a piece of paper, or the back of a napkin. First, write down where you are from. You decide if that means, city, state, country, etc, but I mean a geographical place. Next, think of something about that place that is meaningful to you. Spend a little time […]