handling difficulties 1

Recalling an interchange on the phone last week with Nat B. re handling difficulties… then talking a bit with Sam yesterday about that too…

Overarching analogy or metaphor:

• thinking of the grandmother's thread in George MacDonald's story book: "The Princess and the Goblin" and the interchange between Princess Eirene & Curdie Peter'sSon, down in the Goblin caverns, when Eirene is led by her Grandmother's thread to the little room that Curdie has been locked into by the Goblins...

… and how that works with "the psalms" in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, and their model of (creatively, in God's presence)...

1. ...describing the emotion-al and event-al terrain they presently find themselves in, within God's world - as God's children, in God's presence, as truely (& creatively) as they can. (And in that process, somehow...

2. we are enabled to see,  understand, and discern paterns within; and, recall, or somehow bring to mind, more, which we find …  (repeat number 2; and, from that

3. when God's wisdom, insight, or help come, we can move on. 

points to note in the process:

1. It will probably involve waiting, (and watching). Sometimes it happens before the end of the psalm, sometimes not. 

2. It's not just a principle, a way to get on, without any help; but a way to acknowledge that we need help, and to set a way of living that will never again spurn good and timely help, but rather celebrate it!

3. It is sort of like swapping your whole paradigm from a single celled creature to being a cell within a multicellular organism. Which can only work if a god says, "I will never leave you, or ever forsake you", and if you thought this god to actually be trustworthy). Or changing your approach to seeing a dictionary as describing a community of practice's practice, rather than the model of the dictionary being the "definer" of the language, how it works and what it means.

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