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2 COLOSSIONS 4:6 Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

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4 Our line of fear is ultimately our line of change

5 ecotone:a transition area between two adjacent ecological communities.

6 One of my favorite places to be are along the ecotone. It s where it s most alive; the edge of a forest and meadow, the ocean and the sand.

7 It s that interface between peace and chaos. It s that creative edge that we find most instructive.

8 It s also the most frightening, because it s completely uncertain and unpredictable and again that s where I choose to live. Terry Tempest Williams

9 JOHN 4:5-7 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well.

10 JOHN 4:5-7 It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water, Jesus said to her, Will you give me a drink?

11 JOHN 4:5-7 The Samaritan woman said to him, You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).

12 tonos: tension

13 Subtle or extreme, I love the idea that when two disparate, even opposing viewpoints meet, they create a new kind of landscape by the meeting itself. I wonder how this encounter (with someone I vehemently disagreed with) would change my outlook and defining characteristics -and whether the area of tension is a space I could actually stand to reside for very long. Susan Leem

14 COLOSSIANS 4:6 Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

15 Grace: an unexpected gift which greatly benefits everyone.

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17 Salt: a little really helps; too much ruins everything.

18 Truth should never travel faster than love. Erwin McManus

19 When you choose to occupy the space between, you will always find Jesus already there.

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21 COLOSSIONS 4:6 Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

22 One of my favorite places to be are along the ecotone. It s where it s most alive; the edge of a forest and meadow, the ocean and the sand.

23 It s that interface between peace and chaos. It s that creative edge that we find most instructive.

24 It s also the most frightening, because it s completely uncertain and unpredictable and again that s where I choose to live. Terry Tempest Williams

25 JOHN 4:5-7 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well.

26 JOHN 4:5-7 It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water, Jesus said to her, Will you give me a drink?

27 JOHN 4:5-7 The Samaritan woman said to him, You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).

28 COLOSSIANS 4:6 Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

29 Grace: an unexpected gift which greatly benefits everyone.

30 Salt: a little really helps; too much ruins everything.

31 When you choose to occupy the space between, you will always find Jesus already there.

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