Imagining the Lectionary: reflections of self - a work in progress (Proper 25C / Ordinary 30C)
contributor: David Perry
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Who am I? The snapshot of me that is reflected back into your perception and my conscious comprehending self in each present moment, conversation, thought or decision is a work in progress. The 'I' that I am is not static or unchanging, still less constant or consistent. The felt reality is of a spectrum of 'me-ness', an n-dimensional set of possibilities within which my moment by moment self can be plotted, not as a singularity but as a cluster. The me you encounter minute by minute and the self I see in the mirror is a mood-music snapshot; it is only when all these experiential pictures are put together that the compendium which is 'I' emerges as a recognisably coherent reality of self and personality. But there is always room for uncertainty and surprise.
Not least because God's love engages with this self as a work in progress. The Holy Spirit's presence brings a developing inner harmony as one's experience of being self more closely maps onto the spiritual parameters of healthy humanity as defined by the bounded set reality of Jesus, and his deeply incarnate and embodied kingdom of love....
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Image: ‘reflections of self - a work in progress’
Who am I? The snapshot of me that is reflected back into your perception and my conscious comprehending self in each present moment, conversation, thought or decision is a work in progress. The 'I' that I am is not static or unchanging, still less constant or consistent. The felt reality is of a spectrum of 'me-ness', an n-dimensional set of possibilities within which my moment by moment self can be plotted, not as a singularity but as a cluster. The me you encounter minute by minute and the self I see in the mirror is a mood-music snapshot; it is only when all these experiential pictures are put together that the compendium which is 'I' emerges as a recognisably coherent reality of self and personality. But there is always room for uncertainty and surprise.
Not least because God's love engages with this self as a work in progress. The Holy Spirit's presence brings a developing inner harmony as one's experience of being self more closely maps onto the spiritual parameters of healthy humanity as defined by the bounded set reality of Jesus, and his deeply incarnate and embodied kingdom of love....
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