Thought on solitude...
"Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self."
-Parker Palmer, from A Hidden Wholeness
-Parker Palmer, from A Hidden Wholeness
re: Anne Lamott's "Mess" and John Wesley's "Perfection"
here is 6 days growth. my son said this morning, "your beard is pinching me!" i have received some comments regarding my last post which included an excerpt from Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird . The comments centered around Lamott's observations re: perfectionism being the voice of the oppressor, the Wesleyan theological term "Christian Perfection", and the United Methodist understanding that we are moving on to "perfection." i don't think that by sharing Lamott's observations i have called Wesley's theology into question or compromised my own understanding of "Christian Perfection." as i understand Wesley, his move towards "perfection", or the acquisition of "sanctification" (though Wesley seems to believe that this could be a fleeting acquisition at best) is a process or journey made by one through grace alone and that one who achieves "perfection" is not in the state permanently and therefore is
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Perhaps we are a nation full of people living in solitude, because we are unable to live apart from our own selves.
I like this thought and will ponder it a bit more.