There. Is. More.
It’s about the process.
If it’s about the person, then why do I, and others, feel so lost and strung along?
Because, it’s about the process.
Last semester A 3rd year counseling student told me, “Trust the process and don’t get discouraged. It works out in the end.” Yeah, and I’ll be able to run in Heaven, too.
The process is great, as long as you don’t forget that there are people involved.
Get involved in a process that is fast moving, and I can guarantee that you’ll be lost.
Stand up and say that you’re being missed or overrun by the process, and you’ll be asked why you fell that way; how are you sitting with that; and tell me more.
I’m sure the process is great if all we’re looking to do is to create drones and robots that ask “x” when “y” happens. Is that all?
The problem is, “x” is a great question and, in spite of the intentions, usually allows for great things to take place. Which leads me to my next beef…. Why do “great things” have to take place for meaning to occur?
Are we so numb to actual life that we must experience the mountain every time we sit down with someone? can we not experience a grain of sand and the impact that it has? Why does the process require of us to glorify Buber and the genuine meeting every time we sit down?
It’s about the process. Look out, you’ll end up in a ditch with a frown on your face and no smile…if you’re not careful.
There is more to be had, here at MHGS, here in my marriage, here with my kids, and more importantly, here with God.
There is more. Do you see it, do you know that you’re not getting it all? There’s more. This is not it.
Search for more. Be more. Ask for more. Invite more. God more.
Why are you doing life, not how are you doing it. Don’t how life, why it. Life is more than what works and what doesn’t, life is about bigger; about more. Not about a bigger house, but about a bigger dream, a bigger me, a bigger you…A bigger GOD.
The sum has to be greater than the parts, or the process will be the more. the process will end up being the end; and we’ll miss people. We’ll miss me and we’ll miss you.
We’ll miss God.
Why do you miss God? Don’t how the question, why it.
Why More?
Why God?
There. Is. More.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:18 am
Thank you for this post. well said
April 4th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Amen.
April 12th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Samuel,
I really love this, and I really want to talk to you about it. Can you make this the topic of our theology reading group? I am sure there is close tie in with eschatology here somewhere!
Sarah
April 13th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
so good! thanks
April 14th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Samuel, this is beautiful.
April 15th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
While thinking about the process Jesus’ statement in Mark 2:27 comes to mind when He said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” The process was made for us, not us for the process. I have seen great glory happen within the process, and I have seen deep harm occur because people being missed in the process.
The process has failed all too often. The process is made up of people, and people fail, and I desperately hope that in their failure others (we) are allowed, possibly even invited, to call those that failed to a better place. As long as I hear people fighting for others I have hope, hope that the process can be changed to honor the people it is there for.
Why is it often great failure that calls us to step out of ourselves, and risk bleeding for others? I sit here with hope in the process because it is made up of people, people who care for other people, people who won’t, who can’t, sit back while the process swallows up more people.
Thank you for your voice Samuel.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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February 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
[…] Last year around this same time, I posed a question “What is this place”; on my blog. The question was cryptic at best as my effort to go into more than just the question itself was not there. However, a month later put a little more effort into that question with the post, ;There. Is. More. Today, I’m at the same place wondering what is this place (MHGS), and how is it that I hope and call myself and others to more. I’ve spent the past year wondering if I had it in me to search for more. It is impossible for me to deny the need for a voice to call others to more….and I wonder how I can call the institution of Mars Hill Graduate School to more: More responsibility, More truth, and More gospel.If we truly believe that the gospel is all it’s cracked up to be (especially here at MHGS), then our pursuit for what that gospel is should stop at nothing. The problem is, what is that gospel? Specifically in the context of MHGS, what is the gospel that is taught and encouraged? What we’re taught is that the gospel is the belief that any story can be redeemed …. regardless of how that story was created. And that’s the problem.I’m convinced that the mission of MHGS has become so engrained in the walls of the school that the very glory we all seek is seemingly found in the creation of disruption and chaos. A far cry from stepping into the story of chaos and disruption …. not the creation of it. […]