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Getting out of the rut
Leaving the familiar I am writing this from a porch looking over a wall of hills covered in gum trees. I am at a camp site just outside of Lithgow that Fusion runs called Maranatha. For the past 10 years we have had all our national meetings in Poatina, and this time, for a bit of a change, we have come here. I think the change has been worthwhile, just to mix things up a bit. I think its possibe to become too familiar with the normal. I heard two quotes today that I have had going round in my head:
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Looking beyond
Openness to others I am continuing to put up excerpts from Jean Vanier’s “Community and Growth” every now and then. I love working with Fusion, and I love the heart of what we are about. In this section though, Vanier explores what it means for communities like Fusion to mature. Vanier looks at the challenge for communities to increasingly become open to the gift of “the other””:
