Today I welcome Larry Chouinard as a Guest Blogger On the Horizon! Larry writes Spiritual Conversations which I discovered via Emerging Grace. Both are well-written and thought-provoking. I highly recommend them.I found myself nodding my head in agreement and raising my hand to exclaim “Absolutely!” “Right on!” or “You know it” about every one of the items on this list, so I am delighted to present:
You Might Be Missional if . . .
1. You talk more about the Kingdom of God than you do your local church.
2. You are more in awe of the radical Jesus than you are the charisma of your pastor/preacher.
3. You feel a greater sense of community in the parking lot than in the pews.
“Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched. Why would you really want to do that?”
~ Henri Nouwen ~
My first response to this quote was, “Why wouldn’t you?”
When I was growing up, each night before supper we said a prayer that had no name. We learned to recite it from the time we could talk:
Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest,
Let this gift to us be blessed. Amen.
As I thought about the quote, memories came flooding back to me of sitting around the table with my family, saying that prayer night after night after night . . . I changed, the color of the walls in the kitchen changed every few years, the table we gathered around was traded in for a newer model a couple of times, my parents’ hair color changed and their faces aged . . . but the words never changed. Never varied. The grandchildren learned it, too, and the tradition continues.
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Wordless Wednesday
I wish there were more hours in the week available to visit all the blogs owned by talented and visionary writers that I find when I start following links from one site to another. But here are some of the posts I read this week that I found most interesting, thought-provoking, inspiring and informative.
I urge you to visit one of more of these sites and, of course, let the proprietors know that you were referred by Hopeful Spirit at On the Horizon! 
