HeyJaredConfluence Formation
Reflections about life, wildness, and spiritual formation. arammitchell.substack.com
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The Elements Await You (opens the original)
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I’m sharing with you—in good faith that it might weasel it’s way toward relevance—the note that I just sent to a group of fathers and sons who my father will be guiding next week in the wilderness. I, alas, will not be with them. Not in the flesh. But I’ll be tracing their path each day, recalling my own encounters with the elements that they will meet. Today at sunrise as I motored to the mainland from an island in Maine, feeling the rollicking waves slapping at the bow of my boat, I recalled a
Sand, mosquitos, silence and sinking (opens the original)
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Emma and I were sitting with Juniper at the edge of California last week, just a stride or two from the Pacific Ocean, taking in the majesty of the ocean. Witnessing the constant strength of the waves and the tides. Beholding the vast reach of the horizon. In that moment, that place was imbued with divinity. Full of the divine. In that moment, I looked at Emma, and smiled. Emma smiled back. And we both looked down at Juniper. As Juniper took one tiny—yet substantial—handful of Pacific coast sand
Willing to be a blessing (opens the original)
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The portion of the Genesis story that led me to this reflection gives us Jacob’s deathbed blessing of his sons. Some of those blessings are harsh blessings, and others sparkle with possibility. There are a few ways that you can read such blessings: * Perhaps they are a flawed father’s assessment of his many children, couching personal grievances and favoritisms in the language of blessing. * Or you can see that they are from a future author, looking back and putting words in Jacob’s mouth to des
Life is not sweetened by bitterness. (opens the original)
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Life is not sweetened by bitterness. Don’t you think? It’s tough to be simultaneously grudgeful and joyful, holding on to spite and resentment, while also living life with levity, joy, and ease. Still, letting go—when you’ve been wronged—is not the easiest thing to do. Last week I wrote about the story of Joseph toward the end of the book of Genesis, and how his older brothers sold him to a host of traveling slave-traders in order to rid him from their family. If there were an occasion to hold a
Gender play with Joseph (opens the original)
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Trigger warning: In this reflection there is brief mention of a sexual assault that occurs in one of the biblical narratives that I reference. Just a few weeks left in this journey of reflections on the legends and myths in the book of Genesis. In case you need to get reoriented, here’s where we’ve been so far: We talked about the delight of the creative force that pulses beneath // within // throughout all the rest. And about Eve and Adam and their move east of ignorance and innocence . About C
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