Blind Men and the Elephant, The
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There is an analogy to how differently we each understand or experience God in a classic story about three blind men and the elephant. As each of the three blind men are trying to understand exactly what the elephant is like, but experiencing different parts of the same thing.
The first blind man is feeling all over the leg of the elephant and says to the others, "It is like a strong tree." But, the second is holding the trunk, explaining, "It is like an ever changing vine."
Still, the third blind man is running his hands across the large body of the elephant, exclaiming, "No, it is endless, like a wide mountain."
We each experience God differently. We don't have to agree. We don't have to be in a building, but we do need to be in community. Even if that community can't be face to face, we need to challenge each other and hold each other accountable.
ReplyDeleteMatthew 28:19-20 (from the Message) Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I'll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.
OH! WOW!, I don't know what to say but this is a solid and perfect beginning to our community.
ReplyDeleteI love this story! It's such a great image of how we all can see the same thing so differently. And depending where you are, you can see the same thing different, too.
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