Thread by @dianabutlerbass

Yesterday at #WildGoose2018 was incredible:

1) I shared on the main stage about the radical practice of gratitude -- and how if we read the Easter story through the lens of gratefulness, Maundy Thursday -- not Good Friday -- becomes the most significant event of justice and eschatology.

2) Had lunch with @RevJacquiLewis and our two wonderful spouses -- a true table of trusted friends.

Met up with the ever-creative @annaclaire713, a Methodist pastor from Alabama whose joy, energy, and justice-imagination never ceases to inspire me.

Was part of a #WildGoose2018 "Living Room" event with @brianmclaren, Randall Balmer, and @Frank_Schaeffer that might well go down in Goose history for its taking us all on a journey that was revelatory and profoundly moving.

Good book signing. Saw friends. Almost stung by a bee. Yeah. #WildGoose2018 has bugs. 😉

Hung out @pagitt's tent to tape a @HomebrewedXnty pod w/@brianmclaren hosted by @trippfuller. We talked everything from the Cappadocian theologians to Scottish peasants, land removal & finding a life-giving justice narrative. And yes, Trump, too. Don't miss it when it comes out!

Along #WildGoose2018 pathways, I had a lovely and short chat with @KaitlinCurtice, who is such a good human and talented young writer.

Gave @johnpavlovitz a hug.

(And he gave me the proofs of his upcoming book, "Hope and Other Superpowers")

Got a hug from @xinmetoo, who had come directly from the Episcopal General Convention.

Met @JenHatmaker for the first time -- she is warm, smart, funny, and kind. I hope it won't be our last meeting.

Saw so many friends and good colleagues that I can't even keep track.

And we (Richard and I) ended the day having dinner with Barbara Brown Taylor, her husband Ed, and @pastormitchell. What a table of story-telling!

And those are the sorts of things that happen at #WildGoose2018 -- the spirit blows and she brings unexpected gifts -- all day, everyday.

Multiply my little thread by 4500 (the number of people here), and you pretty much get the pic of #WildGoose2018 -- the spirit moving in 10s of 1000s of surprising, life-affirming, hopeful ways.