Ewbu
Speaking of the Thinklings, there was a post there that has stuck with me ever since I heard it. It was a light hearted post, but becasue of where I was spirirtually at the time, it really hit home in a deep way. It was called Ewbu. When I first read it (back in November I guess!) my church as a whole and me personally were coming to the realization that we had put tried to put a narrow definition on discipleship and anyone out side that definition wasn't 'right'. It was a gut wrenching time of introspection and a real challenging to my faith. As I came to grips with the broader realm of discipleship and ways of looking at the world, I came across ewbu, or 'Everybody's Wierd But Us.' In a kight hearted post, bird at Thinklings drove home the very real idea that we all see the world differntly, but that's almost always OK. In fact, I've learned that emracing someone else's 'wierdness' helps me grow. As me friend Erik at VirusDoc put it once:
Perhaps this god is best viewed as a sort of mosaic--each individual can perceive only a single tile, and maybe the vaguest outline of the tiles near it. To see the whole picture, you have to get together, compare notes, and piece it into a whole. Maybe, from that perspective, He is not hidden at all. He is just larger than any of our singular fields of view.
The way to get that wider view is to seriously consider others viewpoints without judgement.
Comments
Salguod,
Thanks for visiting Thinklings and for tracking back to my EWBU post. It's funny, you never realize how many people are going to read this stuff that we write, and how it's going to impact them. I'm glad you got something out of my dabble into light-hearted writing.
Feel free to comment at our site anytime!
Posted by: Bird | March 7, 2004 9:11 PM