a book that is going over me now, "The Success Principles," is a
man that I believe, has what the Nez Perce indians described as
a "Big Soul." Near as I can find from studying the Nez Perce
culture, they had a word for human, and it meant a person who
acted as they ought, lived as they ought, and respected others
as they ought. The Nez Perce I've heard, had not word, as we
do, for someone who wasn't "human," it wasn't conceivable
to them that someone would be so, instead they had only two
descriptions for a person, they were, "human," or, they weren't
described at all. Think about that- what sort of difference might
it make in our lives today if we simply didn't even acknowledge
when someone was being a total jerk? How much effort, time,energy and soulful hurt is engendered inside the Body of Christ,
by people who are expressing that someone wasn't "human."
As Jack Canfield might say to them, "let go of the past."
One of my all time favorite movies is "the Matrix," which I believe
holds many, many truths about how we ought to consider the
value of life; and in that movie; one of my favorite characters,
"the Oracle," says this to the star "Neo." "Oh what's really
going to bake your noodle later on is,
would you still have broken it
if I hadn't said anything?"
Listening in, hearing, understanding, becoming, joining,
are all words which express both motion, and existence;
think about it. We hear someone, we are hearing, it is,
motion in our life, our brains are cranking out meaning,
at that moment, our existence is fully entrenched in
hearing what they are saying, but are we hearing, the sound
of the chirping bird on the bush outside our window? The
neighbors loud muffler as the car starts up? The slamming
door across the street? The grass growing...zip, the needle
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the grass growing? Sure Dana we've got nothing but
time to stand around and hear the grass growing, even
if we could, even if we cared, which we don't!" Feel
familiar?
Well let's play Oracle, for a sec; you see, you
actually do hear it; you just don't recognize that you
do! Your brain in any independent moment is taking
in as many as thousands upon thousands of audio,
video, touch, and other sensory inputs from eyes,
ears, skin, hair, nose, mouth; feet, you name it, you
are literally a sensing expert- but most of what you
sense, moment to moment is placed into a path where
you aren't cognizant of it at all, are you? So yes, you
have heard grass growing, you just didn't realize it-
now, let's get scriptural here for just a second and think
together about the power we know as love, that the Bible
says is God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HgbpMDAmno
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