Mystery, Memoir, and Meaning

Mystery, Memoir, and Meaning

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Rest and Remember
The Treehouse

Rest and Remember

The Treehouse: Conversations About God

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Rebecca Gummere
Apr 20, 2024
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Leafless bushes partially blocking the view of the Rio Grande River with blue sky dotted with white clouds.
Rio Grande River, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Hey, hey! The Treehouse flooring is in, so we now have our basic framework.

God, YHWH, or The Exhale, as I think I’ll now say, is our foundation, the floor, the thing we stand on to construct the rest. It’s made of prismatic love and fierce hope and resonant sparks of creative energy. It’s firm enough to stand on, to hold up the whole thing, yet it’s also alive, as if the wooden planks are still the living, growing trees themselves, taking the necessary shape of a container for the Very Big Story we’ve entered into.

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