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  Lisa Mongold said...

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  One word: ewww! How can you eat those things? I always remember when you were Admin of the school, heating up a bowl of those in the kitchen. I guess some things don’t change.

  09/16/09 9:23 PM | Comment Link

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  Chrissy Witt said...

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  beautifully said, for me! There is always more than enough to give away and then receive again! Always more than enough to be given! More than enough for me! Thanks again Scott! I love your heart and your family, you and your family have always spoke volumes to me, I love you “realness”!

  09/22/09 3:31 AM | Comment Link

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  Michael A.C. Rebey said...

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  I’m interested by this post but I’m still trying to wrap my mind around what you’re seeing. I’m also responding to this after listening to your later post about zoo animals too and I’m wondering how the idea of freedom and/or transformation might be linked to our humble ability to receive.

  Have you ever wondered about Moses and how we are told that he was the most humble man on earth at one point in time – maybe ever? If you’re like me, you’ve looked for the proof or evidence of his humility and I think its found in Deuteronomy if my memory serves me correctly. There’s a telling of how Moses comes down from the mountain to find the Israelites committing grave sin. God sees their sin and is furious as well and then rather quickly God tells Moses that He will wipe them out and start all over with him (Moses). Nobody ever talks about this but do we realize that we could be talking about Moses as our patriarch and not Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Who knows maybe even the idea of Israelites or Jews would have been eliminated and we could be talking about Moites or Mozites. Really. But we’re not, why? Moses at that point, reasons with God that the other countries of the world would see this and then think the Israelites God set them free so He could simply destroy them and then everybody would have the wrong view of Him. Interestingly enough God obliges what I believe is Moses moment of true and absolute humility.

  This differs though from what you are seeing and this is what is intriguing to me. Moses could of had it all but didn’t take it. Luke did take it all and still had left overs to share. I’m trying to merge these two ideas because I think both situations are moments of real humility. I’ll have to meditate on this.

  What I especially like is your final thought, that if we see ourselves as recipients there will always be enough to share.

  Have you ever clenched a fistful of sand? If you hold it loosely the sand falls through your fingers. But oddly enough, if you grip it tightly, while you don’t see the sand falling through the cracks, eventually when you open your hand that sand will be gone as well. No matter what that sand will be lost, used, consumed, whatever. But what if we realized we were standing on a beach and we could freely reach down and pick up as many handfuls that we needed?

  I don’t know how that relates to humility per say but somehow I think it connects to your idea of being recipients.

  11/2/09 7:29 PM | Comment Link