My faith plays a very strong role in my commitment to living out the principles of the economy of communion and the way that that shows up and how my faith plays a role I think is most evident in the concept of providence. Providence is like what I would describe like almost like the magic, the thing that you're like how in the world did that happen? How did the thing that I needed most come through right in the moment when I needed it?
There's nothing else but like belief in a higher power, belief that there's something bigger than me and us. And I know when I've shared this with others who are not believers, I'm often met with coincidences happen all the time. Like that thing happening wasn't just out of nowhere, Sasha. That was many choices that you don't even remember. Like setting things up for that to happen. And you know, to that I always respond like that is very true.
I don't disagree for a second that there maybe are things that I had done or my influence or conversation that set something up that I was not not privy to but somehow it all culminated in that moment. I was like the design of that to me is because of a higher power and a source like that's that is the lens through which I see. So very specifically in terms of um I mean just going back to that story with Andrea when she started working I mean it got much more difficult to stay in touch but I remember Andrea called me and invited me because she had just bought her house and wanted me to see her house and then furthermore wanted me to meet the faith community that she continued outside of the car network but the faith community that created the the systems needed for her to like continue to stay um on track.
And I remember meeting that community and seeing her home. And I remember being like feeling so like not ready to do that. um to kind of go there and with like a belief that like even that even like that what felt like a break or a separation or an end was actually like also something to meet with belief and faith like that there was a design that God had for both of us. I feel like my choosing and like to see providence and name it as that I think just like naturally shaped and like helped me have the mindset to like then encounter like the things that were difficult and to have to take the risk and and let go of fear or to overcome it. Life happened after that and I'm like I'm where I am now because of it.
