((yes, the book with all the dang grammar issues))
everything i was trying to say to you!
all of the things you didn't want to hear!
all of the things you still need to hear!
(and I no less than you of course)
it's almost like i needed to hear someone say it all before i could recognize the issues for what they were.
i didn't have words before to express how wrong we were; i was afraid that my gut reaction was too harsh or too offensive or...wasn't even...
i still don't really have words. i'm still just reeling in the shock of having this paradigm shift like scales falling from my eyes. i'm not even done reading the book.
the assignment is a five page reflection paper on the reading.
Jesus will provide the words...
...and the strength with which to apply them.
(PS. I kind of got over the grammar issues.
I've been correcting them as I go along...but they totally add a sense of ultimate urgency to the topic!)
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"I ask the reader to be attentive to the phenomena as presented in this book and to test in yourself if you did not already "know" that they were true but lacked words for them."
--Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways, page 210. Read it maybe an hour or two after I wrote this post.
uummm.... that's crazy.
Can I borrow that book from you when you're done with it? I know it might be a little while...
Yes!
I'm done reading it; I'm not sure if I'll need it a lot more over the semester...
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