Well, last night’s thing with Shane Claiborne was awesome. My favorite things he said were that – “the world can’t afford the American dream”. That “if every American actually had their ideal middle class life, then statistically we would need 4 planets”. (quotes paraphrased a bit based on my faulty memory ) I loved when his friend Chris was giving advice to a young man who had moved himself and his wife into low-income housing after reading Shane’s book in order to start building “intentional community” with the poor. Chris told him that’s why its called intentional community – it doesn’t just happen. “But in the meantime”, he said, “if you want to build community, work on your marriage! That’s part of your community right there!”

Yep, good stuff. Especially since I got to share tea with 3 lovely mama’s afterwards