Loss

It's a week of loss.

The Cascade People's Center--just across the street for where we live and surrounded by outdoor community space-- is no longer a community center.

Our neighborhood needs a year round third place. And it had it. And it wasn't costing the City anything. And it was well stewarded. And still, they took it away.

And I'm grieving it. For me and my family. For my neighbors who understand what is lost. For neighbors who don't. For neighbors who aren't here yet.

Someone recently asked me how I make sense of this theologically. I believe that God, who slows down to "2 miles per hour" for the sake of working in relationship with people, is grieving it too.