“… a group of us feel called to stop, to look, to listen, and, above all, to wait. We want to wait on God, be aware of his presence, attentive to his purpose, and enter into his response to our area. We want to wait on our neighbours; not setting any agenda or setting up any agencies, just helping out in any way we can.
We have a dream We dream of a world in which all the resources of the earth will be shared equally between all people of the earth, so that even the most disadvantaged among us will be able to meet basic needs with dignity and joy. We dream of a great societ of small communities cooperating interdependently to practice personal social, economic and political compassion, love and justice, and peace.
We dream of people developing networks of friendships in which the pain we carry deep down can be shared openly in an atmosphre of mututal support and respect. We dream of people understanding the difficulties we have in common, discussion our problems, discussing the solutions, and working together for personal growth and social change in the life of love of Christ.
We yearn to make this dream a reality in our own locality….”
David Andrew’s vision for intentional Christian community present at Waiters’ Union in Brisbane, Queensland quoted in Community of the Transfiguration: The Journey of a New Monastic Communityby Paul Dekar.
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