so today we spent most of the day working on doug and shelly's new duplex they bought to rent out... cool place with hardwood floors underneath shag carpet... fun to tear stuff up and see the beauty underneath... and tiring...
some good conversation... doug made a comment at lunch that i have been thinking on... he said that our 'theologies' are really kinda like adapters for us to connect the story of god to our lives, our world, the now... so, depending on what time or place or situation we find ourselves in, we use different adapters or even the same one in a different way... but eventually, we begin to see that there may not be a need for an adapter for us to make the connection... hmm... interesting...
interesting because amidst all this deconstruction of what ive been told to believe or this stupid statement of faith i am being asked to consider, i hear my friend mark say that what you believe doesnt matter all that much... no, thats not what he said... he said that thats not the main point really... it does matter... but belief isnt the only shaping force in us, right?... i mean, we are formed in several other ways...
i continue reading my palmer book... amazing in its simplicity... may i share some more of his thoughts?... and then we are off to dinner...
"If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we "grow" our lives - we believe that we "make" them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love.
"From an early age, we absorb our culture's arrogant conviction that we manufacture everything, reducing the world to mere "raw material" that lacks all value until we impose our designs and labor on it."
wow... i need to read that again...
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