Nancy’s Kitchen

Richard and I are reading a book by Richard Twiss entitled “One Church Many Tribes”. It is most interesting as we learn more of our Anglo-American culture and more of the Native American culture. At times we find ourselves in grief and abhorrance of the things our Anglo ancestors and predecessors, innocently or not, have perpetrated on the Native American population. (I noted that these kinds of abusive behavior is not limited to Anglo-Americans. It happens all over the world.) Other times we find ourselves receiving encouragement and a greater understanding of the potential of good interaction with and acceptance of different cultures. I need to spend more time now processing what we have been reading, finding out where we “fit in” to the overarching picture of God’s Love and Redemption for the world. Thanks for “listening”.

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The Life Model, Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You - The Essentials of Christian Living, by Friesen, Wilder, Bierling, Koepcke, and Poole.

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I was reading an article this morning, and this statement by President Jordan of Gallaudet University really impressed me. This applies to both people who are deaf and people who have hearing.

“I’ve had to become a really good listener, which I hadn’t been. And think before speaking. I used to talk really fast. Now I try hard to think first and speak second or better still, not speak at all. Understand and respect different points of view. I’ve learned how life experiences lead people to different ways of seeing the world. I didn’t always understand that and still don’t as much as I should. But now I more often think, Why does that person see this differently? What am I missing? What experience led him or her to think this?” –Gallaudet President I. King Jordan

This reminds me of James 1:19 “…Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger…”

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I just heard a great review on this book, Blue Like Jazz, Nonreligious thoughts on Christian Spirituality. I think I’ll get it.

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