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Chris
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Welcome!
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Richard Nelson Bolles (who wrote What Color Is Your Parachute) says that your mission is when your joy meets the world's need.
Joy comes in different forms. Community, and culture (meaning the unspoken language of expectations and life patterns) is endlessly fascinating to me. So is engineering creative solutions to analytical and logistical issues. I like getting things done, offering leadership to improve things. Put these things together and you get community building - the strategy of welcoming and linking people. In terms of job titles, this could mean Program Director, Fundraiser, Volunteer Manager, Pastor (all areas where I bring skills).
I want to be a healer. I believe in healing community (both the power of the community for individuals, and the power of individuals to help a community). I believe in helping people be who they truly are. I believe in accepting what IS in my life. I want to live in the power of the healing energy which I know physically as light & love. In this call I am inspired, awed, energized, and left singing. I bring skills here too, although gosh I feel like I beginner, some days.
I have a growing sense that the world's need concerns the environment, specifically transportation and energy policy. At it's root, this is a spiritual problem because it is about our relationship with the earth and what is beyond us, and even our whole way of seeing reality. It is also a problem with how we have organized our community and our politics (particularly the problem of campaign finance).
