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Автор: Tracey Lind
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      Interrupted by God

      Interrupted by God

       glimpses from the Edge

      Photographs and Essays by

      Tracey Lind

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      — to Emily

      The Pilgrim Press, 700 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115-1100

       pilgrimpress.com

      Copyright © 2004 by Tracey Lind

      Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America and are used by permission. Changes have been made for inclusivity.

      All rights reserved. Published 2004

      Copyright material taken from A New Zealand Prayer Book—He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa is used with permission. Quotes from The Book of Common Prayer (1979) of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., are used with permission.

      Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

      This book has been reproduced as a digital reprint.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Lind, Tracey, 1954-

      Interrupted by God : glimpses from the edge / photographs and essays by Tracey Lind.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 0-8298-1622-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-8298-1968-7

      1. Christian life—Anecdotes. 2. Christian life—Meditations. I. Title.

      BV4501.3.L55 2004

      283’.092—dc22

      2004049415

      Contents

       Foreword

       Preface

       Introduction: The Question

       One

       It was born on a winter day . . .

       The Light of Darkness

       Just Another Homeless Family

       A Baptism to Remember

       A Child Shall Lead Us

       Two

       It lived and died . . .

       Why I Do Ashes

       The Preacher’s Prayer on the Eve of War

       The Garbage Tree

       Stolen Shoes

       Three

       It rose again . . .

       The Unfinished Story

       Welcome the Risen Christ

       Life Happens in the Interruptions

       Four

       It continues to rise . . .

       Mountain Musings

       Crossing the Great Water

       Keep on Singing

       Five

       It nourishes . . .

       Bread of Life

       Sally’s Feast

       Beckoned to the Banquet

       Six

       It challenges . . .

       The Demolition Contractor

       Love for the Fallen Flower

       The Trinity of Love

       Confessions of an Evangelical Universalist

       Seven

       And it calls out . . .

       All-ee All-ee in Free

       About the Photographs

       Notes

      Foreword

      In his book, Ministry and Imagination, the late theologian Urban Holmes suggested that the spiritual imagination is an act of pilgrimage whereby the hungry soul goes “outside the city” to find God’s presence. Leaving the city in order to see God is an ancient Christian practice, one that can be traced back to the fourth century. As the faith became increasingly conflated with imperial Roman values, faithful believers who could still imagine a life of intentional spirituality made their way to the countryside and desert where they hoped to better envision and practice a way of life in God.

      Today, “the city” embodies the system of what is, the religious patterns and institutions with which contemporary Americans live—the accepted way of doing things, approved faith narratives, and proven programs of piety. Although such ways of