{"id":753,"date":"2012-05-11T07:27:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T12:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slowchurch\/?p=753"},"modified":"2012-05-11T07:34:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T12:34:59","slug":"broke-into-the-old-apartment-this-is-where-we-used-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slowchurch\/2012\/05\/11\/broke-into-the-old-apartment-this-is-where-we-used-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Broke into the Old Apartment (This is Where We Used to Live)."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><\/p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ggJS0p-QQc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n<p>I rarely listen to music on the radio, but the other day I was flipping through the stations as I was driving and heard the opening riffs of the Barenaked Ladies\u2019 song \u201cThe Old Apartment.\u201d This song was a favorite of mine around about the time I graduated from college, so I turned it way up and reveled in the nostalgia. But in the midst of my revelry, the words caught my ear, and I realized that there was something profound here that I had never heard before: the song brings to the surface the deep grief we bear as a result of our hypermobility.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The homes and environments in which we live give form (and thus meaning) to our lives \u2014 the color of the walls, the hole I punched in the door, the grumpy neighbor downstairs banging on the ceiling. I certainly have had the experience that they describe here, going back to a place where I used to live and feeling a similar sense of loss and confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology is largely a mystery to me, but it does seem, as the Barenaked Ladies, have named here, that every time we uproot ourselves from one place to another, we inflict a sort of wound upon ourselves (or if we are being displaced by economics or political conflict, we have the wounds inflicted upon us). I share <a title=\"Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jonathanwilsonhartgrove\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove<\/a>\u2018s hope (his book <a title=\"Review\" href=\"http:\/\/erb.kingdomnow.org\/featured-the-wisdom-of-stability-by-jonathan-wilson-hartgrove-vol-3-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Wisdom of Stability<\/em><\/a> is a must-read!) that church communities rooted in stability in a particular place can offer the hope of a different way (and even perhaps of healing) to a world deeply wounded by our hypermobility.\u00a0 Having lived at twelve addresses over the course of decade through college and afterward, I know these wounds all too well.<\/p>\n<p>In order for us to move in the direction of a more rooted culture (in our churches and in our neighborhoods as well) we need to have a keen sense of what we are repenting of, the damage we are inflicting upon ourselves through our hypermobility, and quite to my surprise, I found that these wounds are laid bare in the story told in \u201cThe Old Apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely listen to music on the radio, but the other day I was flipping through the stations as I was driving and heard the opening riffs of the Barenaked Ladies\u2019 song \u201cThe Old Apartment.\u201d This song was a favorite of mine around about the time I graduated from college, so I turned it way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,4],"tags":[275,135,274,245],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighborhoods","category-what-is-slow-church","tag-barenaked-ladies","tag-healing","tag-hypermobility","tag-stability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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