Comments on: Creative Being, Living & Working

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:31:53 +0000

Thanks for this. I really needed to hear it. I know I desire change in my life so much that it hurts. But fear of being shunned or rejected by those I view as “close” to me keeps me from changing.

By: Richard Harty

Richard Harty — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:43:40 +0000

What I have noticed is that most issues are issues of preference. And yet these are given the energy of moral failings. Or there is the reasoning that if we push the edge, this will lead to terrible things happening. This is all fear based thinking.

I thought Christianity was based on love, not fear. And yet fear seems to be the word for the day and age.

By: Andrew Conard

Andrew Conard — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:25:09 +0000

David – Thanks for your thoughtful post. I agree that the closer resistance is to an individual, the harder it is to take. I think that there are times when that resistance needs to be heeded from those who are closest to us.

On another note, Dr. Kendall Soulen, one of my pofessors at seminary said that the threat from within is greater than the threat from without.