We all know that iconic scene. Two boys challenging each other to touch their tongue to the frozen flag pole in A Christmas Story - hoping maybe the recess bell will ring before they get to the dreaded and impassable "triple dog dare." There's an order and a protocol to these things. There are steps you take before you jump from dare to double dare to double dog dare and triple dare and finally to triple dog dare. Protocol was ignored. And so Flick ends up with his tongue coldly fused to the flag pole. A triple dog dare is powerful.
And today, I'm skipping all protocol and issuing a wide-spread and highly dangerous triple dog dare. If you are reading this, I am daring you.
At the Inhabit Conference this last weekend, I facilitated some friends in re-imagining the prayer of Saint Francis not in lofty words with no clear way to hit the ground but with the gritty reality, street names, history, names, and faces of their neighborhoods. As I was talking with Tim Soerens, he said that in essence, this process turns the prayer to a dare.
So, friends: I triple dog dare you. Translate the prayer of Saint Francis for your neighborhood...and then live out your local Dare of Saint Francis...and let us know what happens! (Seriously, if you'd be so generous as to post your own dares in the comments, it may inspire others with their local dares.
And today, I'm skipping all protocol and issuing a wide-spread and highly dangerous triple dog dare. If you are reading this, I am daring you.
At the Inhabit Conference this last weekend, I facilitated some friends in re-imagining the prayer of Saint Francis not in lofty words with no clear way to hit the ground but with the gritty reality, street names, history, names, and faces of their neighborhoods. As I was talking with Tim Soerens, he said that in essence, this process turns the prayer to a dare.
So, friends: I triple dog dare you. Translate the prayer of Saint Francis for your neighborhood...and then live out your local Dare of Saint Francis...and let us know what happens! (Seriously, if you'd be so generous as to post your own dares in the comments, it may inspire others with their local dares.
Here is a downloadable worksheet that is a dare issued from my parish at Everett Christian Church to yours as we all collaborate locally for the global coming of love, pardon, faith, hope, light, and joy!
| prayer_of_saint_francis_worksheet_(2_pages).pdf |
Below that is the prayer we read together for three neighborhoods: Donna Mathwig writes a dare for Siskiyou County, CA. Andy Wade writes a dare for Hood River, OR. Jeff Richards write a dare for Midtown Sacramento, CA.
If Flick had the courage with little to gain to stick his tongue to the pole in the dead of winter, I believe we all have the courage with everything to gain to stick our faith to the streets in the coming of the Kingdom! I (and Saint Francis) triple dog dare you!
If Flick had the courage with little to gain to stick his tongue to the pole in the dead of winter, I believe we all have the courage with everything to gain to stick our faith to the streets in the coming of the Kingdom! I (and Saint Francis) triple dog dare you!
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