Community Freesale 2010

I love the concept of a Free-sale. It makes no sense.

But that is exactly what the kingdom of God is about... things that make no sense to us.. out of the context of love.

Way back in the Old Testament, God once told His people, "When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God." (Lev. 19:9-10)

Fact is, us Americans have a pretty bountiful harvest compared to the rest of the world. This Saturday, for the second time we as Kaleo are hosting a community free-sale. We do this in hope to see a little more of heaven coming to earth as we open a place for everyone to share their "fields" with their neighbors! In love the boundary lines between your things and mine become blurred and at some point, some day, we hope to have "everything in common."

So, all are invited this Saturday at 8:00am on for the 2nd annual Community Freesale!

Beside the Woodycrest Community Garden (around 2015 Hutton dr. 37210)

Feel free to bring some things or leave some things, or just come and hang out...

we'll have some grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, drinks and smores...

Love your neighbor.

Kaleo Nashville

A Season of Refuge

It seems unbelievable that its November... It's amazing to look back over the seasons and see how God has been at work in the lives of those around us and also in our own. To see how the rhythms and seasons of our lives have ebbed and flowed with time.

And so as the darkness sets in and our daylight becomes shorter and shorter we enter into that season in which some would say requires a lot of "hanging-in-there." The question for us as the church is, What does it mean, as the coldness begins to set in, to serve a God whose love is so warm? What does it mean for us as the church, when the darkness comes rushing in, to be a child of the God whom (as the Psalmist once said) "night shines like the day and darkness and light are alike to You"?

This past weekend was the retreat for our Kaleo Nashville "Team." We spent a weekend at a Monastery in Trappist, KY. It was an all out and well needed refreshing. There is just something about a place of silence and solitude that acts as a "city of refuge"

for us these days. Being there in this place of rest and refocus also is a reminder of this season we are entering into...When the world gets cold, and the skies fade to dark, we as the world's inhabitants are meant to find some peace, rest, and refuge in the midst nor

mally chaotic, bright, and noisy places.

Be encouraged as this Season of Life falls into place, to find yourself seeking a place of refuge and rejuvenation as we give God thanks this November and on.