As always it seems much more easier for me to express ideas or thoughts in a foreign language, so until our German skills are at the level to do this type of conversation in German, we shall use English. I also red the fact that it is not quite ok to not write in Romanian and that is actually a shame for us educated people to forget the uniqueness of our language. So I acted upon that as well, and my prayer journal for December is in Romanian. Take this as an intro or an amuse-bouche for our conversation.
Coming back to the first part of our conversation and the fact that after reading a couple of times the Cave Myth I think this describes to some extend the situation that we have at hand with you and our openness to the ideas you are bringing, and at a larger scale the Iris church long discussions and the way they perceive this exposure to light, sun..or whatever we want to call this new element.
It is not a secret that fear is the most common element of people being blocked into something, and perhaps this is the exact case. Sometimes we are simply paralyzed with fear to grasp the new things that you are bringing to the table. And often times we do not feel we have the teeth to be able to chew as much as you can. That is perceived in most cases as a rejection from our side, from my side in particular.
I want to ask for forgiveness for all the times when I rejected you with or without willing, aware or less aware. It was unfair of me to do that.
The 1 million dollar question for me is how do we learn to interact with all that is new? How and when do we know if what we are learning is to be kept in our hearts and to be further investigated, or is non value added. How do we avoid dedicating too much time to something that is not value added? How do you know if the light you are seeing is a Good light? I think this is a gap many of us have, and is hard to cover it.
Being a Christian means something different for most people. Of course, I hope everyone starts from the main which is to be a Christ follower. But there are followers that are not necessary very active, or they consider that if they are actively engaged in a ministry for example (singing, youth, kids, missions etc) they are already engaged in the mechanism towards perfection. Just because we (i deliberately include me in the we) think that being involved in self study, self learning, reading about different topics, educating ourselves constantly through various subjects (culture, music, art etc) does not mean that everyone does it in the same way. So perhaps these people already think they are out of the cave themselves and they do not get why we are still in...doing the same things over and over again.
Regarding this group, I like the fact that you are calling it our group:). It feels nice. I think the group finds the discussions we are having very refreshing. I think that you also learnt how to engage the crowd better; that makes the conversation much more pleasant. I also feel the appetite in the group for unfolding various topics and the openness that everyone has. Even Luci and Coco, the fact that they are open and honest in the conversation sharing the fact that they do not share the same view on things makes it all more real.
Hope the above makes sense, this only addresses our first half of the discussion. I will continue with the second part , which will be more about me, but only after I read the article you sent me.
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