Time is one of the great challenges of modern life — we feel stressed, harried, overworked. And so often, it feel like we never have enough time for what we need to do. Yet our language about time makes it seem malleable and elastic, alive with possibility. Think about it. We waste time, we call time, we know that time flies, we even kill time. All these phrases convey a sense of humanity engaging in God-like behavior, as if time were physically alive and controlled by human beings. Do we control time? What might happen if we lived as if our own time had that much creativity? If we had that much control?

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.” — Annie Dillard

 

Kathryn Jay is pleased to return to Mankato to share worship with the Fellowship. She is serving as the Hallman Ministerial Intern at St. Paul’s Unity Church Unitarian this year. After seventeen years as a college and high school teacher, Kathryn returned to school as a student at Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, where she will earn her Masters of Divinity in May. Kathryn loves taking photos, reading poetry, walking in nature, and drinking hoppy beer while watching baseball. She has found summer and fall in Minnesota to be astonishingly beautiful and can’t wait to experience a snowy winter.

 

What does it mean to be a community of possibility?

Topics: Possibility