tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post5323802524990875016..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: Vanity of vanitiesJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-32180435276221002992008-02-02T12:03:00.000-08:002008-02-02T12:03:00.000-08:00Oh **** I'm on my way to Boise Idaho and don't hav...Oh **** I'm on my way to Boise Idaho and don't have time to give proper respect and thanks for the comments. I'll do better when I have a moment of rest.Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-49452821070658946192008-02-01T19:28:00.000-08:002008-02-01T19:28:00.000-08:00Johan, first, just thanks so much and my warmest e...Johan, first, just thanks so much and my warmest encouragement in your walk with Jesus and his friends everywhere. My dinner is going to get cold, but I just had to thank you for the Nancy's question business from '05. I followed the link and got so excited I started reading it out loud to the dog. I agree with the person who said, "re-reading and re-reading it" but I know also that you don't write like this for praise from the likes of me; so I will note that my experiences of gratefully accepting not having money or my own front door for the last year, but trying hard to live much CLOSER to God by needing him more... your use of the word 'autonomy' in that context was clarifying for me. <BR/><BR/>I say no money, no front door; but odd jobs and 'honored guest' status in finer Quaker guest bedrooms means in practical terms that I'm better off than almost everyone I sang with in Burundi. Yet still almost invisible in American eyes. <BR/><BR/>I am currently dog-sitting in Portland's West Hills for a young family. QUALITY quaker family, I should say, kind and giving and sane... and staggeringly wealthy on any historic scale. But then this whole hillside is hip to hip $500,000 to $1,000,000 homes.<BR/>So I come along and I say, "I feel closer to God not knowing how I'll get money next month, except to pray for it," and they say, "That is fascinating."<BR/><BR/>Enough from me. Thanks again, bro.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-71211888939675937522008-02-01T16:12:00.000-08:002008-02-01T16:12:00.000-08:00Thanks for this great and thoughtful post!You say:...Thanks for this great and thoughtful post!<BR/><BR/>You say:<BR/><BR/><I>I remember one very dear Friends fellowship that was pretty homogenous but yearned for diversity; half a block away was an Elim Fellowship pentecostal church where there was ACTUAL diversity--racial, social, class, temperament, language. Spiritual power does NOT necessarily mean emotional contortions, but it does mean crossing a threshold of conversion and self-abandonment not typically found among the self-satisfied or terminally autonomous.</I><BR/><BR/>Self-abandonment is also rare in middle and owning class culture. But much more common among poor and middle class people.<BR/><BR/>:-) JeanneJeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00905850036743973387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-40693770742412007312008-02-01T15:10:00.000-08:002008-02-01T15:10:00.000-08:00Thank you for this post.Also, there is the new blo...Thank you for this post.<BR/><BR/>Also, there is the new blog www.friendsofcolor.blogspot.com which is supposed to have multiple contributors but, ah, so far is kind of just me. But others have accepted the invitation to blog, and I'm eagerly awaiting their voices!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com