Hello hello
I’m at a place called Vertigo
It’s everything I wish I didn’t know
But you give me something
I can feel....Your love is teaching me how to kneel
Transition can feel so disorienting and confusing. Too often this transition is aborted because we have been told that God is not a God of confusion. It's actually so tragic that people who think they are helping are often actually standing in the way.
I find it quite interesting that a rock band seems to "get it" and understand these things in a way many religious people don't. I guess when you spend the majority of your time out there where life happens in all it's complexity you learn these things as opposed to the sterile confines of that contrived environment where god is a god of order and absolutes and a belief system that tells you if you are confused it is the enemy.
When we begin to see more clearly the life of alienation/independence that we attempted to live and all it's illusions of security and certainty and we begin the walk out of that, you can bet there is going to be some shaking of the ground we stand on. As we begin to see it for what it is, we come face to face with our freedom to choose. To stay where we have been, the place a familiarity might seem safe....but who wants to settle for that if it is just an illusion?
What we are being offered is freedom. As we walk out of the prisons we have been living in, into that freedom, expect to feel a little bit of Vertigo.
7 comments:
Hola! I'm often suffering from vertigo. I still haven't really gotten used to it. Maybe I never will. Maybe I don't want to
Kent,
Hello....I appreciated this post very much...the pull is strong to "stay the same" or to "go back" to what is familiar at least it feels that way now for meself...I like to think of myself as a little rag-tag pilgrim starting a different phase of the journey....least that's how it seems....a radical convergence of materials crossing my path like Wayne J's stuff, "The Porpoise Diving Life" (a great daily read)as well as plenty of other stuff.
peace and good
todd
www.ragtagshope.blogspot.com
Todd, thanks for stopping by and I am pleased to meet you. When I find some time I will check out your blog and try to learn a little more about you and what is going on in your journey.
peace,
Kent
Hi Kent,
I enjoyed your first post Monday (thanks for the help in finding that quote, I needed it personally and I read it today to my students as well.) so I decided to come back to your blog and see what else you had to share. Glad I did. Vertigo is a great term for much of what I've been experiencing. Thanks for putting these words to it.
I'll be back,
Chad
Chad, where and what do you teach?
Our church (yes, that box...) has a college (Vineyard College of Mission or VCOM for short). It isn't very typical. Our goal is to raise up missional people that will make a difference in this world.
The first year our approach is to go after the students hearts, helping them connect with who God has created them to be. It is a nine-month course that we call "Discipleship in Action". It has lots of various facets, but more than anything is mostly about relational discipleship. This is the part of the college that I get to wrap my heart around.
The second year schools are more focused on training for specific types of skill sets- children in crises, medical missions, social and environmental impact, and worldview video. We also have a great nine-month inductive Bible school available during the second year.
That is probably a whole lot more than you wanted to know, but there it is!
That wasn't too much at all.
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