The call to participate in Intentional Community
People who are interested in being in Intentional Communities generally are in various stages of trying to discern how seriously they are called. Their call can range from mild interest to serious interest to deep committment. I believe that many people are being called into community and that this call is greater than any one person or any one community. It is a call that is being born from our unique moment in history, as a global people, in reaction to specific things going on in the world, as well as a seed of a vision of how life could be better lived, with more meaning, in a context with more satisitifaction and spiritual depth. But each person must discern their own call, each must act on what is coming from his or her own heart. Here are some basic questions to get us started:
What does community mean to you?
What do you feel you can/will bring to the community?
What do you feel the community can/will bring to you?
What do you want to see happen through this endeavor?
What are your present and or future concerns about this endeavor?
What can/ how can you commit, at this point, to this community?
(This is in reference to my opening post, http://altoutermost.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/community-ritual/)
