http://blog.therefugeonline.org/2008/01/22/jenny-sacred-cows/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:58:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.therefugeonline.org/2008/01/22/jenny-sacred-cows/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Jennifer Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:35:00 +0000 http://www.blog.therefugeonline.org/blog/?p=59#comment-194 I want to find some sunglasses in the shape of cows because this really is like wearing blinders. And we don't know it until we know it (that we are wearing blinders!) Perhaps, surprisingly, if I am willing to take off the blinders, I can begin to let in more truth not less. It doesn't mean that I am going to let truth be "watered down", but that I will come to live, as the quote says, closer to the truth about myself, others, and the world in which I live. I think in community we can learn to listen and learn to loosen our grip. I want to find some sunglasses in the shape of cows because this really is like wearing blinders. And we don’t know it until we know it (that we are wearing blinders!) Perhaps, surprisingly, if I am willing to take off the blinders, I can begin to let in more truth not less. It doesn’t mean that I am going to let truth be “watered down”, but that I will come to live, as the quote says, closer to the truth about myself, others, and the world in which I live. I think in community we can learn to listen and learn to loosen our grip.

]]> http://blog.therefugeonline.org/2008/01/22/jenny-sacred-cows/comment-page-1/#comment-193 kathyescobar Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:46:00 +0000 http://www.blog.therefugeonline.org/blog/?p=59#comment-193 thanks, jenny. i see how often i hold on to my sacred cows even though they seem to be progressive ones in my little self-centered eyes--things that i think are the most important thing in the whole wide world when it comes to theology and philosophy of ministry and all kinds of other things. and i am reminded in your post of the importance of humility & also an awareness of God's bigness and that how some people experience Him is different than i do, but there's not "right" and "wrong" or "good" and "bad" it's just about accepting the differences and letting people be where they are at even when it feels uncomfortable or even makes us mad or we think it's somehow inconsistent with our little small view of how they should "do God". (do you like all my words in quotation marks???) thanks for the thoughts! thanks, jenny. i see how often i hold on to my sacred cows even though they seem to be progressive ones in my little self-centered eyes–things that i think are the most important thing in the whole wide world when it comes to theology and philosophy of ministry and all kinds of other things. and i am reminded in your post of the importance of humility & also an awareness of God’s bigness and that how some people experience Him is different than i do, but there’s not “right” and “wrong” or “good” and “bad” it’s just about accepting the differences and letting people be where they are at even when it feels uncomfortable or even makes us mad or we think it’s somehow inconsistent with our little small view of how they should “do God”. (do you like all my words in quotation marks???) thanks for the thoughts!

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