Sometimes life requires one to jump with both feet in! All my life I have toed the water from the edge. Is it too hot? Is it too cold? Is the pool deep enough so I won’t hurt my feet hitting the concrete? Or worse, is the pool too deep and I’ll lose myself to fear and popping ears under the watery abyss?
Now my question is ‘what am I jumping into’? Is it a pool? A lake?---ew the goo on the bottom. I have avoided that steady drumbeat of my call for years--- I have found creative ways to not jump in fully. Too long I’ve been like a cat scratching her owner not wanting to take a bath. No more. Life is too short.
No longer am I waiting and waiting for the Perfect Time, the Perfect Circumstance, the Perfect Temperature, and the Perfect Bottom, for I am letting go of Perfection! I’m not really sure where this Blog will lead me. But I do know this: my cup runneth over with my joy of God’s mercy in my life. My cup runneth over as I consider who I AM as a child of God. I am grateful my faith is gifted by the roots of the United Methodist Church. I like this denomination within the Ekklesial body not because she has all the right answers, but knows she too is imperfect and in desperate need for God’s grace.
So it is in that spirit. I am dancing to the edge of whatever and jumping in!
Blessings BE!
About Me
- Rev. Jacqueline E. C. King
- I live life joyfully as a married United Methodist Elder and Nia Practitioner. When I was in seminary, I walked into a Nia class. Nia blends martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts in a holistic fitness program and lifestyle practice. I am forever indebted to my formation at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary and the Nia Technique. I am amazed how often my Ministerial and Nia practice blends in one harmonious unit. It is my belief in Christ and my dance in Nia that enables me to carry the weight of the stole of ordination. Ekklesia Nia is one of my favorite phrases. Ekklesia is the Greek Word for Church and it means “called out”. The word reminds me that the church is not so much a building but a way of Being. Nia is the Swahili word that means “purpose” I am driven to write when I consider what it means to BE Called out with a Purpose. Ekklesia Nia!
