Patterns, like puzzle pieces, are predictable. If only we can find the edges....
Cling to your truth for what it is. Claim your exclusive rights to it. Clamor for the position of greatness among mortals. Clean the cobwebs of doubt from your opinions and let your own, brilliant, unparalleled, self-righteous, inattentive, other-shunning truth ring forth without opposition! All the while, hide your troubles from the unobservant glance. Set up your layers of fallacy as a shield against introspection.
A friend tells me that we establish our own patterns of hurt. I agree. Established; a tree planted by the rivers of water, bearing its fruit in due season. Envy, strife, discontent, discord, cacophony, malice, slander...produce of *my own* truth. My own and not yours. I am its source. From me issue the statutes of everything about which I am able to pontificate, however glibly. I am Right, if only for the sake of unearthing your wrongness. And I must do so in order that the threat of order, concerning which I find myself the head and (why not?) the center, would be averted.
So you know what I am, and thus what you are to me, being other than me.
Now, and only just now, I may smugly place myself with the illustrious Dr. King, calling down justice like many waters, "And righteousness like a mighty stream!" For when I am right, all is right. Never mind dissension or differing perspectives.
A bit much?
And this is the problem among the members of the Body of Christ: we treat each other like individual wholes, when we have actually been called as members of one body, and to live in peace. The arm must not employ the hand to harm the rib, lest the body fall short of breath. We believers, together, are the organs and limbs, held together only by the Almighty power of God in Jesus, WHO IS the ligaments of Word and love.
"Can't we all just get along?" Now we know at least one reason why it is not as easy as it seems. Realize this: your perceptions represent a fragmented fragment of the whole puzzle. Mine do too. Let us practice humility, therefore, in knowledge and power, understanding that we do not possess except that which is given to us. All for which we would grasp for ourselves becomes evil in our control.
Thanks Drey.
Allow a quick update on the goings-on in Nkwanta. I have met a grand total of three Youth leaders in the area. My next action is to meet more, then to develop relationships with them, inasmuch as my short time here will allow. There is a growing likelihood that I will be able to teach the basics of biblical study, or some spiritual disciplines, or the implications of Christian identity, or all of these. I have yet to decide on the format this will take, as I want to get to know the leaders' personalities and schedules. I am hoping for a teaching group of no more than 6, so that if I meet more leaders, I would break them up into two groups. I am looking forward to teaching in this way again.
That is the latest excitement for me. I hope you have some excitement of your own!
Life is such an adventure.
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