The Journey to Orthodoxy 30 Oct 2006 09:24 am
I can’t answer your questions.
Who am I? What am I? (Yes, I know that I said yesterday I wasn’t going to ask these questions right now but go with me here a moment).
I am not really anyone of signifigance in anyone’s eyes but a few family and friends. I’m curious. I’m hungry. I’m interested. I’m prone to want to share my journey in hopes of being understood, maybe cheered on from the sidelines, maybe even joined.
But I’m not an authority on much.
The last few weeks I’ve been learning about something that excites me because it soothes my parched heart with hope. I like to talk about things that make me bubble over but that doesn’t necessarily make me a fair representive of it. I certainly am in no position to defend it and don’t want to either. Defending something you don’t yet own not only gets really confusing, it also sabatagues the journey.
I’m going to keep sharing what I’ve learned. What I find that’s thrilling me, or confounding me, or causing me to wonder. But if in listening you find you have questions that pertain more to the ideas and less to my own experience, please go get a book on the subject, written by a first hand source. I’d be happy to send anyone to great websites I’ve found or toss out a few titles to look at the library for.
I talk too much and this is one way to quiet some of the clamor. I need to listen.
on 31 Oct 2006 at 10:14 am 1.Susan said …
I can so relate to what you wrote here?
“Defending something you don’t yet own not only gets really confusing, it also sabatagues the journey.”
I have had to greatly reduce how much I talk about my “journey”, in some corners of the world, for this very reason. I’m enjoying your bubbling over for what it is right now. NO need to defend it with me.
Susan