Community and Spiritual Disciplines

The Y&F emphasis is starting down the path to becoming a more intentional community.  A small group sat down together a week ago and hammered out some very small steps toward a very large dream.

Here’s some stuff we agreed on, in a nutshell:

•  We love the idea of more community, and deeper community at that
•  We hate the idea of lots of meetings or creating another “club” or “org”
•   We love the idea of building tradition and legacy into the Y&F culture on campus
•  We hate the idea of doing stuff just to do it
•  We love the idea of starting small and building on little steps until we have a better culture within our emphasis and, perhaps, on our campus at large.

A real point of resonance came when we discussed three concepts:  legacy, tradition, and spiritual discipline.  What stuck with me for the past week has been the hunger for spiritual disciplines done together and done on purpose.


For now we're going to start fasting on Wednesdays.  It's going to be a traditional Jewish 24 hour fast from solid food (dinner sundown-ish on Tuesday until dinner sundown-ish on Wednesday).  We'll have one or overarching focual points for the semester and a couple of specific focal points for each week.


It's a small step, but a very solid one I think.  More to come...