If We Build It...(Part 3): BUILD | Jake Haber

In this week’s message, we explore what it means to "build" - literally or metaphorically. Whether you’re building a relationship, a home, a community, or a dream, the process is universal.

We reflect on how building something meaningful often starts small and unseen. It requires commitment through the rain and shine, a willingness to keep going when it’s uncomfortable, and the imagination to see what doesn’t yet exist.

 

At Aldea, we’re rediscovering the sacred art of building together. A new way of being spiritual, of being community, of being human.

 

Quotes: 

 

• “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day…. He was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”

  — Anne Lamott

• The amateur believes they must first overcome their fear; then they can do their work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome.” — Stephen Pressfield
•  

• “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” — Carl Jung

• “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller