One of the best things I did at Greennbelt was attend an evening worship event run by Church on the Corner. Decelerate: New Ways of Inhabiting the City was a reflection on the hectic, fast-paced rat race we are surrounded by living in the city.
It’s something I think about regularly. I love living in the city: I love all the hustle and bustle, the interaction, the diversity. Yet I need to slow down regularly. And maybe that’s where Sabbath comes back in again. But it was fantastic to sit down, slow down, and be reminded that I am not a slave, that nobody cares what I do for a living, that the world keeps on spinning when I stop for a minute.
[See more demotivational posters from Church on the Corner on flickr]
And as we were reminded during the worship, it doesn’t matter if you win the rat race, at the end you’re still a rat.
Hey Emma, really glad you enjoyed it so much! We repeated it at Church on the Corner the following sunday and it was perhaps even more appropriate there.
@ Mark: Thanks for stopping by! I’ve been keeping an eye on CotC since I came across the liturgy of the city, so it was cool to experience, at least in part, your community at Greenbelt. Glad it was good for you in church too!