Day 1: "It's Not About You?"
As this marvelous journey begins, the very first step is one of the greatest difficulty. I have written, for years, on this very concept. There are even lengthy postings recently at my Personal Prayer Journal regarding the unmistakable truth of this statement.
You, which is to say "I" do not have the ability to jump the chasm which lies squarely in the middle of Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:3. I cannot do it. Yet, everything within the human spirit declares otherwise-it is our nature. Self-reliance. Self-realization. Self-actualization. Self-determination.
On, and on. Without ceasing, we are fed both within our ability to recognize (conscious thought) and beyond (Sub/Super conscious thought) this never-ending declaration: It IS all about you!
So, I have (after considerable thought and prayer) given myself a task to complete:
Over the next seven days, I am keeping a list of all the input into my mentation. The list is every conscious input which declares that it really IS about me. It is not that I am unaware. Nor am I surprized to discover that, as Rick Warren tries to so diplomatically state, anything about self (and especially self help!) isn't. It isn't about self, and it certainly isn't about help.
I have come to believe, rather, that any such input is nothing more than the deliriously beautiful sound whispered into my soul by Satan: my own name. I am more than casually interested to see just how it is that he has become so durned successful!
If it really ISN'T about me, then what are the inputs that keep telling me otherwise? And which ones seem to be the most successful? Why?
I would invite you to participate in this task as well. It could be interesting. It could be enlightening. It could be a forever, eternity changing kind of moment for you. I fully expect that it will be for me.
Dad:
Please use this experience to show me the only thing that I need to know: what is drawing me away from you. Thanks, Dad. I love You. Bud
As this marvelous journey begins, the very first step is one of the greatest difficulty. I have written, for years, on this very concept. There are even lengthy postings recently at my Personal Prayer Journal regarding the unmistakable truth of this statement.
You, which is to say "I" do not have the ability to jump the chasm which lies squarely in the middle of Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:3. I cannot do it. Yet, everything within the human spirit declares otherwise-it is our nature. Self-reliance. Self-realization. Self-actualization. Self-determination.
On, and on. Without ceasing, we are fed both within our ability to recognize (conscious thought) and beyond (Sub/Super conscious thought) this never-ending declaration: It IS all about you!
So, I have (after considerable thought and prayer) given myself a task to complete:
Over the next seven days, I am keeping a list of all the input into my mentation. The list is every conscious input which declares that it really IS about me. It is not that I am unaware. Nor am I surprized to discover that, as Rick Warren tries to so diplomatically state, anything about self (and especially self help!) isn't. It isn't about self, and it certainly isn't about help.
I have come to believe, rather, that any such input is nothing more than the deliriously beautiful sound whispered into my soul by Satan: my own name. I am more than casually interested to see just how it is that he has become so durned successful!
If it really ISN'T about me, then what are the inputs that keep telling me otherwise? And which ones seem to be the most successful? Why?
I would invite you to participate in this task as well. It could be interesting. It could be enlightening. It could be a forever, eternity changing kind of moment for you. I fully expect that it will be for me.
Dad:
Please use this experience to show me the only thing that I need to know: what is drawing me away from you. Thanks, Dad. I love You. Bud
posted by Budroe | 5:26 PM
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