The people who regularly comment on gosanangelo.com’s Daily Chat are a pet-loving bunch, sure. But they also, for the most part, have a West Texan’s uncommonly good sense and dislike of “silliness.”
Our oldest grandchild just turned 8. In the spring, he will make his first holy Communion. Luc is not looking forward to the day. In our list of “likes, dislikes and matches,” perhaps nowhere are we so mismatched than on the subject of Sunday Mass. I look forward to it; Luc doesn’t. For one thing, Mass is inside. Inside means no skateboards, no bicycles, no slides, no tree houses and no chickens.
Again they went through the iterative design process, but this time it involved several community-wide discussions. Emily noted that these design meetings created opportunities for folks to talk across lines of race, age, history about something they all care about — the future of their town. Eventually a design was selected that picked up elements of local vernacular architecture, was easy to use both for the vendor and buyer, and frankly looked cool but not “art school.”
Bertie County is largely agricultural, and its largest crop comes from mass chicken factories. Their second project was to design a small, family-sized chicken coop. Actual chickens were brought into the class room so students could get to know their “clients” and to better understand their needs.
And the other lesson was “deep not wide.” Do something, in particular, specific even if it can’t be universalized or scaled large. In a sense it’s the second verb of their motto “Design. Build. Transform.” The relationship between building and transforming was also very strong in the presentation. Her notion of design struck me so strongly I wrote it down verbatim: “interesting solutions to worthy problems.”
When we come to Christ in the Eucharist, we do not “eat him up, we love him so.” Christ is not diminished or weakened or hurt when we receive his body and his blood. When Christ shares his body and his blood, life awakens. Life increases. Life flourishes. Life grows. Life, and more life, like a baby growing daily in the womb, eyes opening, limbs moving, heart beating. We do not “eat him up”; rather, we share in Christ’s life. Like a child linked to her mother by the live and pulsing, nourishing and sustaining umbilical cord, we are linked to Christ. In Christ, as a child in his womb, we live and move and have our being.
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