Comments for Becoming Ourselves http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com Who else would we become? Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:28:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on We ALL must die to ourselves by Satellite Guy http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/we-all-must-die-to-ourselves/#comment-116 Satellite Guy Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:28:46 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/we-all-must-die-to-ourselves/#comment-116 Love reading your blog. Great info! Love reading your blog. Great info!

]]> Comment on Reflections on Band of Brothers by L.L. Barkat http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-107 L.L. Barkat Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:42:51 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-107 I hate war. Yet I remember this strange feeling after 9-11 (I live right outside NYC and my spouse happened to forego his commute to the trade towers that day)... this strange feeling, anyway, of wanting to be a soldier. This was completely inexplicable, a base instinct kind of thing. I don't know that this is confined to gender. Why, I can't even watch a boxing match, but here I felt this terrible sense of wanting to fight. I hate war. Yet I remember this strange feeling after 9-11 (I live right outside NYC and my spouse happened to forego his commute to the trade towers that day)… this strange feeling, anyway, of wanting to be a soldier. This was completely inexplicable, a base instinct kind of thing. I don’t know that this is confined to gender. Why, I can’t even watch a boxing match, but here I felt this terrible sense of wanting to fight.

]]> Comment on Reflections on Band of Brothers by Nick Osborne http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-101 Nick Osborne Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:17:56 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-101 Sarah - my wife is the same way. She cannot, will not, expose herself to explicit war or tortue movies / scenes. They stay with her a long time. And yes, I think war is inherently masculine, and I still haven't found alot of reasons to justify it. Sticking up for someone else could *possibly* be an argument. Maybe. I don't think sticking up for our own rights is a biblical reason for war, since we're called to lay them down like Jesus did, and our lack of returned aggression will reflect the kingdom more than anything else. Someone as a joke gave me a bumper sticker once, that asks the subversively profound question, "Who would Jesus bomb?" Nobody. Sarah – my wife is the same way. She cannot, will not, expose herself to explicit war or tortue movies / scenes. They stay with her a long time.

And yes, I think war is inherently masculine, and I still haven’t found alot of reasons to justify it. Sticking up for someone else could *possibly* be an argument. Maybe. I don’t think sticking up for our own rights is a biblical reason for war, since we’re called to lay them down like Jesus did, and our lack of returned aggression will reflect the kingdom more than anything else.

Someone as a joke gave me a bumper sticker once, that asks the subversively profound question, “Who would Jesus bomb?”

Nobody.

]]> Comment on I feel bad for Paris by Nick Osborne http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/i-feel-bad-for-paris/#comment-100 Nick Osborne Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:59:55 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/i-feel-bad-for-paris/#comment-100 Sarah - your compassion is amazing. Your post has given me good food for thought and changed the way I look at Paris. Thanks. Sarah – your compassion is amazing. Your post has given me good food for thought and changed the way I look at Paris. Thanks.

]]> Comment on I feel bad for Paris by aegialia http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/i-feel-bad-for-paris/#comment-99 aegialia Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:04:32 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/i-feel-bad-for-paris/#comment-99 Thank you...I'm humbled and honored that you're touched. Actually, I've been feeling compassion for a lot of celebrities lately...and I don't know why. I hear more about them, because I'm reading newsfeeds more. And they do truly seem to be some of the more miserable people I hear about--if everything I did was in the morning paper, I'd be in rehab, too! Thank you…I’m humbled and honored that you’re touched. Actually, I’ve been feeling compassion for a lot of celebrities lately…and I don’t know why. I hear more about them, because I’m reading newsfeeds more. And they do truly seem to be some of the more miserable people I hear about–if everything I did was in the morning paper, I’d be in rehab, too!

]]> Comment on I feel bad for Paris by L.L. Barkat http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/i-feel-bad-for-paris/#comment-98 L.L. Barkat Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:42:39 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/i-feel-bad-for-paris/#comment-98 I suppose that if we should lose compassion for anyone, we should be in danger of losing compassion altogether. So, it touches me to see your compassion for this woman. Indeed, no matter our trespasses, God has compassion for us all. I suppose that if we should lose compassion for anyone, we should be in danger of losing compassion altogether. So, it touches me to see your compassion for this woman. Indeed, no matter our trespasses, God has compassion for us all.

]]> Comment on Prayer works by aegialia http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/prayer-works/#comment-97 aegialia Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:47:19 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/prayer-works/#comment-97 I don't know when I first realized it. I think it's something that I've known at an almost-conscious level for a while, but have only recently articulated. I don’t know when I first realized it. I think it’s something that I’ve known at an almost-conscious level for a while, but have only recently articulated.

]]> Comment on Prayer works by Nick Osborne http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/prayer-works/#comment-88 Nick Osborne Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:33:13 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/prayer-works/#comment-88 Wow. When did you come to the realization of this being your God-image? I think we all have a wretched God-image that we have to work through. But even after we do, it can still pop up once in a while and we start living like it's true, and we have to remind ourselves that it's not an accurate image. For me it was / is the "work hard to earn his approval" image. Wow. When did you come to the realization of this being your God-image?

I think we all have a wretched God-image that we have to work through. But even after we do, it can still pop up once in a while and we start living like it’s true, and we have to remind ourselves that it’s not an accurate image.

For me it was / is the “work hard to earn his approval” image.

]]> Comment on I hope for her by aegialia http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/i-hope-for-her/#comment-84 aegialia Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:21:56 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/i-hope-for-her/#comment-84 Totally. It's like a culture of hidden Christianity. Honestly, I don't blame them. But should I? It sounds so lonely... Totally. It’s like a culture of hidden Christianity. Honestly, I don’t blame them. But should I?

It sounds so lonely…

]]> Comment on I hope for her by L.L. Barkat http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/i-hope-for-her/#comment-83 L.L. Barkat Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:08:07 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/i-hope-for-her/#comment-83 I think that's interesting that her church made her sign something. So the "not talking" isn't simply hers... this is what is being modeled too. Yet I can't say I'd want to talk either. I imagine it must be an odd and difficult existence. I think that’s interesting that her church made her sign something. So the “not talking” isn’t simply hers… this is what is being modeled too. Yet I can’t say I’d want to talk either. I imagine it must be an odd and difficult existence.

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