this entire month we have furthered the process of creating a culture of learning.... creating an ethos of curiosity. i think there is no greater task for someone who leads students than to teach them how to think and ask questions. asking the right questions produces the journey and the exploration.
one of the distinctions we looked at was the difference between trying to figure out what to do vs. recognizing what is already happening.
our ability to be aware is key in our ability to live life with depth, fullness and richness. the difference is a life of possibilities...
the tension here is to take hold of the "uncertainty" and the mystery and the ambiguity... which happens to be near impossible for amercians, well humans period. we have a fetish with certainty and control.
ron martoia says, "therein lies a problem that plagues much of the modern western church. we are so concerned with having everything neat and tidy, according to our standards, that we distort, add to, insert, adjust and guess what jesus and the writers of the NT must have "really meant."
Q: are we ready for the honest ambiguity, lack of control, and relational mystery that happens in a human heart wrestling with spiritual murmurings?
WOW!
are you ready to embrace what is already happening?
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