Evidently, what thoughtful planning and sound growth management can't accomplish, you must leave in the hands of God.
Dave Goetz is president of CZ Marketing (www.czmarketing.com), a brand and strategy firm for the service and nonprofit sectors. He's written a book on "suburban spirituality" called Death By Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs From Killing Your Soul, and he advises on his website that you use Death by Suburb as an 8-week study on the spiritual disciplines.
The basic premise of Death by Suburb is that while the suburban environment may at times be toxic to your faith, the answer isn’t to flee. The answer is to stay. The answer is to figure it out. To build into your life the key spiritual practices that help us stay awake to the work of God in this world.
The alternative, I guess, is to say that to experience the fullness of God, you need either to move to the country where the pressures appear to be less or move to another place that may be more friendly to faith. For those who can afford it, that’s an option: You can either buy a second home in the rural or move there permanently.
But what about those who will be forever rooted in suburbia. Are we doomed to a thin or thinner spirituality?
Are we doomed? And, is spirituality like soup (i.e. thicker is better)?
Link: Death by Suburb.
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