On some ponderings about possibilities - part 1

This is an idea that has been bouncing around in my head and heart for, maybe, five years now. It comes and goes like the tides, but stronger with each repeat.

There is a wealth of ability, skills, talents, whatever-labels-you-want among my St Matthias family. There's a cluster of folks I won't name here that I believe could be called to something greater.

The challenge is naming what that something greater could be. The Entity is what I'll call it for the time being.

I view the Entity, first, as a not-for-profit. While I see the staff as primarily fed by those I know from St Matthias, it would be separate from the parish - best for their sake and ours.

The vision and mission for the Entity? I don't have a clear idea around that except to know that it needs to make at least some space on the planet a better place to be for the people who are living there. That notion might play out as simply as meaningful employment experience that translates to a natural transition into the private or public sector for people.

The Entity also needs to be held to a higher moral and ethical standard than what the government requires, which means things like keeping it as green as practical and paying a living wage to any employees.

Other than gathering people together to start to talk about this, I have no clue what the next steps will be. That's fine - I trust the Spirit and our ability to share our own pieces of wisdom.