To walk the Earth, by Tri Robinson
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the morning, Idaho pastor Tri Robinson herds cattle and mends fences; in the evening, he writes sermons. But the two parts of his life don't feel connected. He feels such a deep love of the natural world, in all its beauty, all its fragility. But what is he doing, as a leader, to help preserve that precious creation? As he carries that question with him on his daily rides, he realizes: he's about to make a monumental decision. To change the way he walks in his faith – and walks on the Earth.
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| 0:00.0 | Early every morning, I sit by the fire silently and drink my coffee. |
| 0:20.0 | Sometimes I sit in silence for an hour. |
| 0:25.6 | Then I saddle my horse, Dusty. |
| 0:28.6 | He's a buckskin gilding. |
| 0:30.6 | We head out into the morning light and we work the fences or pretend to. |
| 0:35.6 | What I'm really doing is thinking and riding in my head. It's early spring. |
| 0:41.7 | The Red Wing Blackbirds have just arrived for the season. The barn swallows are coming in droves. |
| 0:48.1 | I realize that my whole life I've been thinking about this very issue Kate raises. And I'm in conflict. |
| 0:55.0 | I come to the conviction that I can't be silent anymore. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm writing the sermon in my head. |
| 1:03.0 | The words won't stop. |
| 1:10.0 | In 1974, Try Robinson and his seventh grade American Literature students |
| 1:18.4 | persuaded the US Congress to permit them to move the body of a famous mountain man |
| 1:22.7 | from a gravesite alongside a Los Angeles freeway to his rightful resting place in the Rocky Mountains. |
| 1:29.1 | It's quite a story, and if you're interested, it inspired Robert Redford's film Jeremiah Johnston. |
| 1:35.7 | Later in 1980, while working among the Karen Hill tribe people on the border of Myanmar and Thailand, |
| 1:41.9 | a life-turning event convinced Troy to leave public education and enter |
| 1:45.9 | full-time ministry. And for 23 years, he presided as pastor of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship |
| 1:51.9 | in Boise, Idaho. There, Troy has come to create one of the most progressive evangelical movements |
| 1:57.9 | around today, a green movement to take care of lands, waters, and sky. |
| 2:04.6 | In today's meditative story, Try helps us see how our greatest accomplishments often begin when those we love challenge us. |
| 2:11.6 | And when that happens, if we're lucky, we let go of what we think we know, and emerge with new ideas that set us on the |
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