Truth is Relational.
There is no truth outside of relationship.
God exists in relationship.
All things exist in God.
All things exist in relationship.
Truth is known and experienced and developed within relationship.
To know truth is be in relationship.
Deception is the evidence and casuse of broken relationship
One's ability to be in relationship with others determines one's ability to know/experience truth.
Everyone relates differently.
Everyone experiences relationships differently.
Everyone knows and experiences truth differently.
Absolute truth is being in relationship with all things.
God exists in relationship with all things.
For everything that exists, exists in God.
In our context truth is a word that conjures up ideas of boundaries, exclusion, friend and foe.
What if truth inspired possibility, creativity, relationality, unity expressed in diversity?
What if to be true, was to be open, to be inviting, to be humble?
Relationships are a context in which our deceptions are laid bare: hatred, mistrust, envy, lust, power, greed.
All of these deceptions are defined by how one relates to something.
Relationships are a context in which truth can be experienced: love, acceptance, patience, trust, humility, service.
A true person is one who can relate to all things with love, for that is how God relates to all things.
6 comments:
wow.
i think that might be the best thing i have read in a long time.
true. true.
it reminds me of the last part of those old budweiser ads, the wazzup commercials...true true.
Dude,
I knew seattle would turn you guys into a bunch of hippies......lol.. just kidding.
where did you get that? did you write that? Can I repost that on my blog?
hope all is well,
Movido
Thanks Tim,
Glad you enjoyed it. Feel free to share it.
I wrote it, in alot of ways it is a good summation of what I have been thinking about this semester. One prof and class in particular that draws heavily on the philosophy of Martin Buber's book I and Thou helped me put words to what I have been thinking about, as I expressed here.
Hope you are well.
Another doozie of a crummy post.
Nate Patzwald
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