All
of us are a part of a number of circles. Two of my circles are prison ministry
with the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (SCLs) and editing work for WiRED, a
nonprofit organization that facilitates health education in developing
countries. Recently these circles came together when the SCLs gave a grant to WiRED for a program to teach essential
facts about pregnancy, maternal health, and the birth process to women in an impoverished region of Kenya. Because, through
me, the SCL and WiRED circles came together, the SCLs and I are now connected
to a new circle of women in Africa.
I read somewhere
that God dwells in the space that exists between people. This is how the body
of Christ grows: circles beget circles, and the space where God exists expands
in greater and greater rings of wholeness and connection. We just have to be
willing to touch each other and enter into community instead of floating in our
own self-contained (and lonely) bubbles.
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