To Convergence, With Gratitude
For just over three years I have been working at Convergence. First as Artist in Residence and then a year as Ministry Fellow. It’s been a wild ride, to say the least.
When I first came to Convergence, I was desperate for a community I could really belong to. I found more than I had hoped for. Convergence became my home quickly – a place of healing, artistic encouragement, contemplative inquiry and intense discipleship. Through my time working (and living) at Convergence, I have grown and changed from the tentative, depressed, artistically stifled college graduate I once was into a published poet, outspoken advocate, performer and contemplative disciple. It is thanks to the safe place for healing and artistic incubation that Convergence has been that I am who and where I am today.
It is with joy and some trepidation that I now move out of the incubator and more fully out on my own. In less than two weeks I move into a place truly my own for the first time in three years. And for the first time in three years, I won’t be working for Convergence, just part of the Convergence church and artistic community.
It is with much gratitude to Convergence that I move into this next phase of my life. Thank you for your unwavering support and encouragement. For pushing me hard when I needed it and telling me the hard truth along the way. I am forever grateful and I look forward to the phase of my relationship to my beloved Convergence.
-Tori Lane
Reprinted with permission. This post originally appeared in the Fusion Project blog.
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