The Friday Greenhouse
Growing and Practicing the Escaped Life
In Tuesday’s article, When Grace Outruns the Garden, we looked at how the most potent grace doesn’t stay behind the fence of the community garden. Like the mint at the town compost center, or my goat wiggling through a loose board to find the back porch, the Spirit of God is notoriously rebellious.
We saw Jesus bypassing the “proper” channels to meet the Gerasene man in a graveyard, Hagar in a desert, and the woman with the issue of blood in a dusty street. He didn’t bring them into the temple to fix them; he met them in the “compost” of their lives and revealed that the Kingdom was already there.
Today, we’re going into the lab. If the “mint” of grace is found in the margins and the struggle, how do we actually train our senses to find it? How do we live as people who aren’t afraid of the mud?
