Not being logical, or deliberately playful?
From one meeting to the next, I often find my views are not accepted, but my views were accepted in the previous meeting. On to the next meeting or conversation, my views received much interest and upon further delibration, I had opportunity to refine my views to fit specific context, and also that my views became acceptable.
There is no 7-sided square, that’s not a square, it’s a hepta…. something.
The imaginery there is to describe the fact that sometimes I am so conscious that I don’t fit in, as to wonder if I were to fit in anywhere at all.
Many have come through this life journey, struggled, confronted and beaten by the need to conform, fit in. Some have “re-modelled” themselves. I have come to realise while I could “adapt” to new surroundings, there comes a time when it’s uncertain the level of acceptance (even high) received confirms that I fit in. It’s rather a case of one assumes the other to assume something about the first person. We are so creative or “un-solid”, i.e. constantly changing in our views and perspectives about something, that we are dealing with multiple variables, without knowing when they change.
Change
That’s a positive idea – change. We are not stuck in one place, with one idea, etc. We can think in different ways, adopt different perspectives, accept things that don’t completely fit what we want – we can deal with the outright acceptable, unacceptable, and anything in between. But, fundamentally, change is normal. It’s an attribute of human (or animals?) that we understand change, we can change, and some of us want change regularly. To that extent, we can also resist change. We can say something is at borderline of acceptance, or not acceptable, or acceptable; and following a change of our views and perspectives, that acceptance of another can change too, from negative to positive, positive to negative, or different degrees of broderline-ness.
The ever-presentness of God is timeless. He accepts us and that’s it. We might change “better”. He has already accepted us. That realisation (from our part) is central to allowing God to work through us.
Each of us comes across cases when we are accepted at different levels at different social context. It can ruin our own well-being, it can also enable us to be better persons in dealing with and relating to many different people and social contexts.
God never changes is a concept to grasp. At one level, while bruised from acceptance and rejection from others, God having accepted us is an eternal peace. It might sound escapism, but the Bible recounting the life and “unfittingness” of people like Abraham (e.g., Genesis 12), Deborah (Judges 4), Hannah (1 Samuel 1) Joseph (e.g., Genesis 38-39), Lidia (Acts 16:14-15), Noah (e.g., Genesis 6, 9), the Samaritan woman (John 4), Stephen (Acts 7), Peter (e.g., Matthew 16:13-20, Luke 22:61-62) etc is the one fact that as we stay faithful to God, God’s faithfulness to us is realised to the full.
