{"id":1833,"date":"2024-09-12T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T14:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/riversidehub\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:41:35","slug":"theres-the-surface-and-then-theres-the-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/riversidehub\/2024\/09\/12\/theres-the-surface-and-then-theres-the-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s the Surface and then there\u2019s the Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facilitators Geoffrey and Brenna were in Amherst, MA visiting Immanuel Lutheran Church at the beginning of August. Immanuel Lutheran<\/a> is in our distant learning cohort in our current RIH learning community. It was a powerful weekend of relationship building with their hub team and learning about their relationship with their neighbors at Craig’s Doors, an organization that supports unhoused neighbors.<\/p>\n

We asked the team at Immanuel to reflect on their experience of the weekend. One of their team members, Ruth Rinard wrote the following piece about her experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s the Surface and then there\u2019s the Depth”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Written by Ruth Rinard, Immanuel Lutheran Church Team member<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Landscape<\/a>
Landscape painted by Ruth Rinard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We didn\u2019t know you, but you came.
\nCuriosity lead to questions.
\nWe began to feel a connection.
\nThen there was a \u201csquirrel\u201d moment.
\nAnd we plunged deeper.
\nYou held space for vulnerability.
\nWe felt a tingling of the Spirit.
\nUnlikely conversations happened.
\nWe were all the richer for them.
\nWe learned we could go as deep with others
\nAs we go deep in ourselves.<\/p>\n

Thank you for coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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