Theolog on ‘Creative Dislocation’
Christians often practice a little-known spiritual discipline called “creative dislocation” without realizing it: we engage in creative dislocation by going on a spiritual retreat or on a mission trip into a foreign environment—the inner city or a third-world country—where the usual markers of our lives are taken from us, and we’re subject to someone else’s way of doing things. When we’re dislocated, we begin seeing in fresh ways. We look for the familiar in the unfamiliar, and we see what is familiar to us in new ways. If we’re paying attention, we see the presence of God in new ways. ...
Perhaps we should think of vacation as more than a setting away from it all, more than some down time. We might be more likely to find rest for our weary souls by practicing the discipline of creative dislocation.
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