Happy Christmas Everyone! (my last chance to say it)
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Thursday
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I'm not sure I like this idea of a "question" or an "idea" . . . but I think people go through questions, or ideas. And for awhile we contextualize things like that. Right now, I think my "idea" would be "Before God", or "in relation to God" . . . most everything that i've been thinking about for awhile seems to somehow have its answer, or its context in all things exist "in relation to God" . . . but . . .at the same time all sorts of other ideas come to mind that don't necessarily have to do with that. But I definitely "cycle through ideas, and contexts, and keep the old ones as well as the new. While I think peoples contexts, ideas, or questions change, people definitely get into "modes" of thinking, and work with it for awhile, and such.
I almost want to say "hey! I care about Love, too!" and I feel like Wendesday would say "Hey! I care about Truth, too!" :P
Still, I do feel very attached to "Truth", but . . . I feel like I have grown in seeing Truth more . . . in God. It seems to me that the more my thinking and deliberating develops . . . the more things seem to relate to God more directly. Does that make sense? (like all these ideas and contexts find a "place" in God, and for a while you focus on one or the other, and you don't forget about them, but find that they belong with God, and have real meaning in God.)
Recently I've been writing a bunch of applications/bios and I do find myself wanting to summarize what my core concern is, and it's hard when there are so many words or ideas that are meaningful to me.
I think. . . there are some words that I associate with certain people because they symbolize for me that idea. It's like another name for them. For myself, I've thought for a long time that wisdom was kind of mine.
But I understand about what you're saying about love. Because especially during the time we had all those conversations, I related a lot of things to love, seeing Love as what makes something worthwhile and purposeful. Since then I've focused on a few different ideas. So I think my essential value [that thing about names in the above paragraph] isn't the same thing as my question [or topic that everything relates to at a point in time].
Maybe someone's present question is somewhat like a point of tension: a place where God is teaching them a lot, setting aright what is out of joint.
Also, I particularly agree with the part of Thursday's comment that's in parentheses.
A Year Of Questions is a project begun on March 22, 2010, by seven teens who want to be better at asking questions and articulating answers. This blog exists to make it easier to discuss these questions (because a 500 character limit on YouTube comments is rather limiting). Enjoy!
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I'm not sure I like this idea of a "question" or an "idea" . . . but I think people go through questions, or ideas. And for awhile we contextualize things like that. Right now, I think my "idea" would be "Before God", or "in relation to God" . . . most everything that i've been thinking about for awhile seems to somehow have its answer, or its context in all things exist "in relation to God" . . . but . . .at the same time all sorts of other ideas come to mind that don't necessarily have to do with that. But I definitely "cycle through ideas, and contexts, and keep the old ones as well as the new. While I think peoples contexts, ideas, or questions change, people definitely get into "modes" of thinking, and work with it for awhile, and such.
I almost want to say "hey! I care about Love, too!" and I feel like Wendesday would say "Hey! I care about Truth, too!" :P
Still, I do feel very attached to "Truth", but . . . I feel like I have grown in seeing Truth more . . . in God. It seems to me that the more my thinking and deliberating develops . . . the more things seem to relate to God more directly. Does that make sense? (like all these ideas and contexts find a "place" in God, and for a while you focus on one or the other, and you don't forget about them, but find that they belong with God, and have real meaning in God.)
*grins from ear to ear at the book* :D
Hmm.
Recently I've been writing a bunch of applications/bios and I do find myself wanting to summarize what my core concern is, and it's hard when there are so many words or ideas that are meaningful to me.
I think. . . there are some words that I associate with certain people because they symbolize for me that idea. It's like another name for them. For myself, I've thought for a long time that wisdom was kind of mine.
But I understand about what you're saying about love. Because especially during the time we had all those conversations, I related a lot of things to love, seeing Love as what makes something worthwhile and purposeful. Since then I've focused on a few different ideas. So I think my essential value [that thing about names in the above paragraph] isn't the same thing as my question [or topic that everything relates to at a point in time].
Maybe someone's present question is somewhat like a point of tension: a place where God is teaching them a lot, setting aright what is out of joint.
Also, I particularly agree with the part of Thursday's comment that's in parentheses.
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