How does the Lord communicate with you: are his plans for you always clear, sometimes clear or never clear? What role does Scripture play? What about advice, hunches, prayer, circumstances? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition page 1057).
As
a freshman at the University South Florida I read Catcher in
the Rye. Holden Caulfield was kind of a hero for us –
someone who (like many of us) was striving to find himself. Now
looking back I see that the key exercise would prove not to be
finding oneself, but rather that of defining oneself. Finding oneself
implies that there is an internal coherency already in existence that
simply needs to be uncovered. The more that I tried to search out my
innermost being, the more I realized that it lacked any sort of
coherent structure. It was something of a mishmash. To define myself
required externalities . These become tools by which to sculpt a
tenable structure. Navelgazing it turns out simply doesn't get you
there; while life experiences and extensive reading of literature,
philosophy, Scripture and the witnessing of others opens up
alternative realities from which to choose those that are most rock
solid.
A
recent blog I highly recommend was written by my boss's wife. The essay illustrates
someone who has achieved a high level of definition. She writes “In
order to grow you have to learn, and in order to learn you have to
make mistakes.... I'm sorry but that is just the harsh reality of
life. Own it, fix it, learn from it. That is my motto.” You
can read the entire blog here:
http://stroemland.blogspot.com/2013/01/that-crazy-little-thing-called.html.
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