We so want to “do something” now. Yet the great lesson of discipleship is to learn to allow something to be done for us and to us and in us and through us. How do we learn this. The Super Practices of baptism and eucharist give us something to “do” that actually puts us in a place where something can be “done.”

First, note where these practices happen. Gathered worship is the setting. It’s through worship, (gathered and scattered) that God renews the face of the Earth. New Creation blossoms every where and every time the people of God gather for worship. The seed of New Creation is sown and the fruit harvested every time and everywhere the people of God scatter for worship in the World. It’s the power of the Holy Spirit in and through the  worship of God’s people that effects what I like to call the “seamlessness of sacredness.” In the mind of Christ we find no distinction between sanctuary and streets. It brings us back to Super Practices. Where do we practice the seamlessness of sacredness? In the concrete-mysticism of the bread and wine; in the supernatural ordinariness of the water. In the indivisible Divine-Human Son of God, Jesus.

If we would see the seamlessness of sacredness in the World, we must first see it in our own communities and selves. Hence our frenetic activity is to try to go and do it, to make it happen, to change the world. However, we can’t make this happen; only God can. So if we can’t just do it, what do we do? We can do this– baptize and feast; be washed and be filled. Note the activity– we are offering ourselves.  Note the passivity–something happens for us and to us. It prepares the way for something to happen in us and through us.

For-To-In-Through. . . . . . that’s the way.