Aug 28 2008
Oopsie Daisey! (or: How I learned to forget part 5ive and move on to part 7even)
Today’s word in community is problem-solving.
As I’ve hinted at earlier, it’s a viscious cycle, this world we live in (and I think some of the ideas and actions that I’ve highlighted in this series and the last are what the Bible refers to in speaking of “the world”). Since we make mistakes, blunders and big bombs, we tend to recognize that there is or at least that there may be something wrong with us. And since it looks like anybody who is important or good or right, any normal healthy member of society, does not have these failings, we hide our own failings. Our weaknesses cannot jeopardize our standing in society.
But we fail to recognize that we are surrounded by fools like us and that it is only our need for validation and our low self-assurance that keeps us in the dark. However, having said all of that, when we come out of the darkness and realize that many of our social evils are (slavery, child pornography, prostitution, racism, immense poverty) an extension - nay, an intense volleying - of our individual failings and our failure to unmask them for what they are, we can begin to deal with them in the light.
Community is the vehicle for correct change, for peace, for health, for conflict resolution. Additionally, it allows us to be ourselves.
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