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5.19.2006

Something on relativity...

We can learn big things and take them for granted, and even forget them because they, relatively, don't appear as what they really are until we get a chance to see them against a different background.

Biblical truths are like this. When we are only having interactions with others who are similar to us in their interest in theology then the foundational things usually just get pushed aside as being 'obvious' and conversation moves towards hair-splitting (and similar things).

Yet then if you find yourself in a real life encounter with a stranger or whatever and the conversation turns on something theological then the smallest great truth from Scripture can become very big and important and powerful once again.

The same with Work ideas and practices and goals.

In fact I think the Work ideas, practices and goals can be more easily lost in this sense simply because they live mostly on our own valuation. With biblical truths there are at least other people who share knowledge of them and valuation for them and can maybe spark a memory of it in yourself, but with the Work it is usually more individual and we carry it in a solitary way through life and crowds and encounters and if we don't give ourselves the shock of remembering them and valuing them nothing else will.