Sunday, August 09, 2009

ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?


Let go of the mistaken notion of certainty and the false sense that it in some way makes you secure and you might be surprised when the familiar "fixed" view you have had of things begins to be dismantled and following the Spirit who is like the wind begins to look not only doable...but actually exciting and awe producing in it's simplicity.


The mistaken notion of certainty creates people that live on auto-pilot. It freezes in place assumptions and perceptions that on a good day are more than likely only partially accurate and on most other days, completely wrong. It makes the correcting of the inaccuracies difficult at best because open-listening-self-reflecting-dialog isn't a part of
the lives of people who have become certain about their thoughts and beliefs. And when it comes to critical reflection....forget about it. All that's left is self-justification and the surrounding of one's self by people who feel the same.

3 comments:

Bones said...

Let the dismantling continue!

Matt said...

I am so ready to go off of auto-pilot and let the spirit blow in my sails.

Kent said...

Matt, I believe it will creep up on you and you won't remember when it happened you'll just notice things are different.