I like the options as a method of centering the importance of the “required” activity—fasting (for instance) is not just a gesture of obedience to rules, but necessary for your growth in the community. It’s important to others we don’t miss your offering of your thoughts in a shared activity, still we understand the possibility something is holding you back and forcing a rule on you is not why we are here.
Just started reading this book, appropriate?
“The human condition is overwhelmingly about relationships—about faithfulness: staying true, loyal and committed to one another despite all the tensions, setbacks, misunderstandings, backslidings, and all the multiple ways we fall short. It is about consecrating the bonds between us. It is about transcending our solitude.”
From chapter 1 Loneliness
Morality Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
Jonathan Sacks
Scott