The thinking and envisioning I’ve written about in the previous post are about an ecumenical center with which I’ve been associated with for 10 years, through my friendship with Larry, and my involvement with a group of people who formed a class they called “Servant Leadership School”, named for the ministry and group study after which it was patterned, the Servant Leadership School started as a ministry of The Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C.

The ecumenical center is housed in an old Catholic Church structure, and includes a marvelous cathedral (used for Concerts, weddings and dinners, as well as some traditional worship services held by various groups who rent the hall). There is also a coffeebar (with all the gourmet coffees), a bookstore, and a grand looking library. In this place are several offices occupied by various groups involved in some sort of mission, ministry, or social service-related activity. I have , for those 10 years, imagined myself back there someday, helping to extend some of the ambience and human activity and spirit of that place into the online world. I’ve been talking to Larry via phone and email over the past 3-4 days about how some of this might finally begin to happen; Larry excitedly sent me some of his initial thoughts after I had “suggested” some things that I might be able to do in that setting. (His first email in this exchange arrived at my PC and set off the “Outlook Inbox Notice Chime” just at the precise moment when I had sat down at the desk and lowered my head, extremely discouraged and worried, and I uttered a “Please, God” prayer of yearning). I’ve not stopped having the ideas and thoughts and dreams since. It’s a time of anticipation and wondering what might be ahead, and how soon. It’s also , therefore, a time of intense prayer.