Peggy Rubin, a very wonderful woman I am privileged to know, has decided to take a year off to engage in the act and art of listening. She has felt deeply called to this and is now traveling, doing just that.
I came across a passage in a book called Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges that speaks to what I am feeling called to, and which I believe Peggy is well engaged in. The question we are looking at is "What is waiting to emerge?"
As we focus on this, the author invites us to crystalize or clarify our vision and intention from our highest future possibility. To do this we are invited to sustain our connection to source and to operate from it. In order to do this we are called to let go and listen - not merely contemplate - but listen, in the course of being in the world, to what is wanting to emerge with the full intention of acting upon it. In other words to offer ourselves as an instrument for its emergence.
I am leaving for Germany soon as part of an American team that is collaborating with a German team of pastoral leaders and academics as they discern the future. It is my first trip to Europe and is very exciting. Hopefully I can listen in the gaps for what is calling to us! When I speak at the conference I will begin my talk, as I always, do with this phrase: The Spirit is leading us into an unanticipated future.... " We will see.
