The HeritageWork 2023
Greetings dear friends and sustaining partners for the HeritageWork.
Sarah and I are grateful for how we walk together with you in our full-time unconventional work--- inspired by Anne Jeffs Harrison 23 years ago. Thank you for how you believe in what we do over these years!
Our vocation is: To make pastoral care, mentorship, marriage vision, healing, and friendship available through organic relationship and welcoming hospitality to a local community and the marginalized, outside institutional church structures, but inside the vision of Christ dwelling in and around all of us.
(above pics) Mother Marilyn Harrison is 92 and loves sitting by her remote activated fire--year round. Dylan & Kate had baby Rita Jane in March, and twin 2 yr olds Jude & Geanna light us up. Haley & John Drinkwater took us on a BVI sailing trip last March.
(below pics) Summer 2023 began an unexpected new adventure of Airstream traveling and Camp Hosting at 10,000 feet for a month! It also was a huge Invitation, a gracious gift, for growth & healing for our marriage; for integrating new spiritual practices of awe & contemplative prayer; and, for Pat, a beginning of realizing unhealthy patterns of fixing others and not seeing his own brokenness and places of resistance.
May you and yours enjoy this holiday season!
God, who created the universe in all its splendor, decided to reveal to us the mystery of the divine life by becoming flesh in a young woman living in a humble village on one of the small planets of God’s own creation. Jesus’ life is marked by an always deeper choice of what is small, humble, poor, rejected, and despised. –H. Nouwen
I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement [at-one-ment] with God."-- Another Turn of the Crank, Wendell Berry
“... now , in my present situation... I realize there is nothing more astonishing than a human face. It has something to do with incarnation. Any human face is a claim on you, because you can’t help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it” – Marilynn Robinson, Gilead
"Faith itself sometimes needs to be stripped of its social and historical encrustations and returned to its first, churchless incarnation in the human heart." —Christian Wiman
