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As Greg Meyer and Kris take some sabbatical time away to pause, imagine, and reflect on what’s next, we get the same opportunity to think about the value of being together and what the next chapters of Fabric can look like.
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy named loneliness the number one challenge to health in America. And that was before the pandemic! With all the disconnecting, we need more togethering! While your drive and ability to connect may be buried under some layers, they haven’t gone anywhere. Everyday they give you the opportunity to help someone heal, weave a healthier self and a healthier society. Sounds a lot like what Fabric is all about! Don’t miss these weeks that set the stage for our summer of exploring what it means to be together as Fabric as we send Greg and Kris off for sabbatical!
May 29: Togethering Takes Time Alone. Love your neighbor. If this was easy, perhaps the things being held this Memorial Day weekend in our own hearts and around the country would not be so terribly heavy. The long-held wisdom Jesus shared nestled “love your neighbor” between two other calls to love: God and, foundationally, yourself. That means spending some quality time with yourself! Maybe you have too much of that, or not enough. Maybe it sounds boring. Or terrifying. Join us at Field this Sunday, on livestream or the podcast to explore solitude as a building block of togethering. EPISODE PAGE
June 5: Togethering Beyond: What’s Your Mission? You are shaped to make a contribution. We are investing two weeks learning about our m&m’s and how your unique contributions through them make togethering work. This ‘m‘ is your mission. You alone are the right person at the right time to reach out beyond to give, love, heal, or serve others in big or little ways. In case this sounds like a ‘have to’ you don’t have time for, spoiler alert: your mission may be the most fulfilling part of your life! EPISODE PAGE
June 12: Togethering Within: What’s Your Ministry? We’re talking about our m&m’s again. Last week was the ‘m’ of your mission, your contribution beyond. This week is the ‘m’ of your ministry. That’s a weird word perhaps, but it is the way you uniquely serve the same community that serves you and others. We are all shaped to be fulfilled not by filling ourselves, but by sharing the gifts we have with others. Greg Meyer’s sabbatical begins the next day so it’s not a bad time to consider what we all do to keep Fabric healthy. EPISODE PAGE
June 19: Togethering Takes Being There Technology allows us to have many connections these days, and so easily! Yet the depth and strength of relationships forged of time, attention and a little struggle are hard to come by. How can we spend more of our valuable attention in ways that bring us together? EPISODE PAGE
Does realism tell you that hope is naive and it is time to move on and get serious? Or, as elusive as it may be, is hope more important now than ever?
Read MoreLet’s celebrate this day and let it be a guide to what we are really waiting for.
Read MoreWhat do those three letters, G-O-D, conjure up for you? Is it big enough for what you imagine God might be?
Read MoreWords matter. Renowned local poet Michael Kleber-Diggs joined Greg Meyer and all of us to explore why.
Read MoreWhether it’s a new year, a new relationship, job, school or a brand new morning - the hope and resolve to do better or be better is human. Follow your hunch that there is something Better than Better.
Read MoreLet’s explore our core values together to better understand what we are about, and to spur us each to consider what is at our own core, and what we want at our core.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with Doing Good Together for an open style service fair. The service fair will feature a variety of opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to do simple and fun hands-on projects that benefit non-profit organizations and help meet the needs in our community.
Read MoreDiscover how you, and we, and Christmas are perfect For Such a Time as This.
Read MoreWhat God is and how God speaks to us is more than we will ever comprehend, but the universe God is revealed in seems to be saying that we exist and matter for only one reason, “Because I love you.” That’s it. Nothing more.
Read MoreSome amazing leaders from the Twin Cities are reimagining our lives and world into a more fair, healthy, fulfilling reality.
Read MoreIt’s like those October leaves, picked up by a gentle breeze, and dancing down the street. Something is stirring.
Read MoreOur first official start of weekly gatherings, then as Jacob’s Well, was Sept 17, 2006. We’ve seen couples meet, get married and have kids who are now in high school! We will use September 19 by being together outside, enjoying some music, sharing our vision and what we see in our future, and we’ll spend time remembering, imagining and celebrating.
Read MoreSpirit Garage and Fabric will gather together at the Minnehaha Falls Bandstand on Sunday, September 5. There are plenty of benches, lots of space, and a good amount of shade at The Falls. Our theme will be “Happy Together? It’s Complicated.” As we move in and out of various states of the pandemic, see people we haven’t seen in a long time, or come together on a Sunday morning, there are many things to celebrate. And also, it’s complicated.
Read MoreIf you are reading this you are a player in the Game of Life. The assumptions you hold (knowingly or not) about what kind of game life is and how to play affect how you show up and experience it everyday. Starting August 1 we’ll have some fun, kids and adults together, exploring some of the common games we play as humans that keep us from playing in the big, real, challenging, amazing Game of Life.
Read MoreThe ancient Greeks picked 7 knock-your-socks-off human made features of their world. They are (or were) amazing but they aren’t the only wonders of this world we share. We’re spending the months of June and July at the Minnehaha Falls bandstand celebrating 7 more wonders among the many that exist around and within us.
Read MoreOne groove after another – it’s what happens when you press play on life. Spring turns to summer. There are new relationships, jobs, health and financial situations. New vaccines come along with new variants. New awareness brings new feelings, opportunities and challenges. Change hits and your life, our world must seek rhythms in a new groove.
Read MoreIt is one of those words that drives us crazy because the quest for it never ends and the harder we chase it the emptier we feel. So what is enough? Is it what you already have, or something you can never have? The question of enough creeps into every nook and cranny of your life; your money and your stuff, your expectations and ambitions, even yourself. Join us as we look at what enough thinking does to us, and what it can do for us.
Read MoreFabric… now on the World Wide Web! Fabric is a thoughtful, progressive church community based in South Minneapolis. Together we're experimenting with what church can be for folks, and engaging life "woven deeply" (with ourselves, God, and all others) through conversations that matter, significant relationships, and inspiring experiences for people of all ages. We take this stuff seriously, and prioritize playfulness along the way!
A brief preview of our upcoming FabricTV+ series, and announcing the first-ever Fabric Film Festival! Put together a team and make a film together— it doesn’t matter if you’re a pro or haven’t made a short film before… it’s all about creativity, not perfection!
Photos and reflections by Jeanette Mayo
The turn of the calendar tempts us with promises of newness—fresh starts, better habits, upgraded versions of ourselves. But what if, instead of charging ahead with self-improvement schemes, we took a cue from winter’s stillness? What if we let go of the relentless hustle and embraced the radical idea that we are already enough?
Fabric’s January series, “Give Up,” has invited us into this counterintuitive wisdom—the grace of resting, receiving, and recognizing our inherent worth. Nature doesn’t demand that a hibernating bear emerge as a “better” bear. Spring’s renewal is not about striving but about unfolding what has been there all along.
In Wintering, Katherine May reminds us that transformation often happens in the quiet, unseen spaces. And in Belonging, Toko-pa Turner challenges us to strengthen our “receiving muscle,” to accept the support woven into our interconnected lives. “You are the receiver of too many generosities to count,” she writes. “Count them anyway.”
So, what if we stopped trying to earn our existence? What if we acknowledged the trees, the friendships, the small kindnesses that hold us? What if, instead of striving, we surrendered to belonging?
You are the gift. That’s enough. May it be so.
-Ian
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Some Deeper wisdom about doing your job from Mayyadda and Katy Schalla Lesiak’s OpEd this week. “…If those questions raise your own version of imposter syndrome or worry that you are wasting your time or not doing enough – you might be doing something right!”