Among the Watering Places with Liz

Another book I've been reading - but this one chewing it off in little pieces because the content is so personally challenging. Scott Bessenecker writes in The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World’s Poor (Downers Grove IL: IVP) not only about the grass roots modern movement, one that is not orchestrated by the institutional church , but reflects back on the examples of those saints from the monastic tradition - Franciss and Clare of Assisi, Patrick and Brigid or Ireland, the Moravians, etc. In the "Incarnational" chapter, the motivating force is the pursuit of Jesus' example in which he descended into humanity - to BE the Gospel! “But incarnation is not easy. For Faye, the glamour of a life of service among the poor, if there is such a thing, was short-lived. Her early journals betray a period of testing and complaining. Being constantly dirty, having legs peppered with bug bites, the heat, the difficulty of life without modern conveniences-all of t...