This is going to be the ‘Best Blog’ you will ever read – – – until you read the small print – – – until you find something better. So, we’re starting the New Year (2018) with ‘verbal fireworks’. Note: The (original) ‘title theme’ (in #33 mode) and the (original) opening (three part) sentence was set out in four font sizes (14, 12, 10, 8); so, guess what the (original) ‘in between sizes’ added up to?
As we all know (only too well) ‘LIFE’ comes in all ‘shapes and sizes’ ::: we can, at one stage, feel ‘Loved Inspired Fulfilled Engaged’ and at another stage, feel ‘Lonely Insecure Frustrated Exploited’. So, the proposition is : Pondering can “Become” a significant ‘medium’ / ‘message’ / ‘meaning’ about LIFE.
Now, I’m going to ‘throw you in at the deep end’ ::: “put out into the deep and lower your nets for a catch” (Luke 5:4). Yes, we tend to struggle with our personal LIFE stories – ‘under a cloud of unknowing’ – using a variety of coping ‘modes of living’ ::: ‘rationalisation’ + ‘superficiality’ = ‘HIDE’ ::: as per Blog (5/11/17) ‘Shake the dust off you Shadow’ : Become “Be”. So, “Be Aware”, all is ‘hidden’ (‘in clear view’) in “‘three forms of revelation’”. (Note: ‘revelation’ = “DISCLOSURE”).
1st form of “‘revelation’” –
Medium = ‘Bible Ponderings’
Message = ‘Social / Spiritual’ Commonality
Meaning = Free User ‘Relationality choice’
Note: The Bible gives the ‘Big Picture’ view on God’s ‘Creation / Creatures’. As per Blog (4/12/17) ‘The Love of your life is Jesus the Christ’ ::: ‘all that exists is God’s gift to man, and it all exists to make God known to man, and to make man’s life communion with God’. Yes, God (Trinity) offers LIFE (‘Gift, Grace, Glory’) and mankind (God’s children) is invited to accept LIFE (‘Receive, Restore, Return’), by way of The Cross (reconciling the ‘horizontal’ : world : with the ‘vertical’ : divine :).
2nd form of “‘revelation’” –
Medium = ‘Public Ponderings’
Message = ‘Social / Secular’ Commerciality
Meaning = Free User ‘Exploitation to the full’
Note: Today’s ‘Social Media’ world is (in reality) 24/7 ‘Public Ponderings’. Man has “made” ‘Digital Platforms / Applications’ to “bare his / her soul” / to “confirm his / her own existence” / to “tell his / her story”. However, this “free” ‘Personal Data’ Is “taken” into ‘Digital Ownership’ and “transformed” into Advertising Industry ‘raw material’ (“product”) for ‘Commercial Consumption’. The ‘means’ and the ‘end’ translate into ::: “here I am” / “come and get me”. What a ‘dead end’ scenario! Will we ever learn that “relationships” are not “transactions”?
3rd form of “‘revelation”’ –
Medium = ‘Private Ponderings’
Message = ‘Single / Spiritual’ Communionality
Meaning = Free User ‘LIFE to the full’
Note: What is “special” about ‘Pondering’ is its ‘spiritual heritage’ ::: “Mary pondered all these things in her heart” (Luke 2:19:51). In sum: ‘Pondering’ is “CONNECTING” one thing (‘event’) with another. Mary pondered “what God was doing” in her LIFE! Here we have the “key” to the ‘mission statement’ of Jesus the Christ ::: “I have come that you may have life to the full” (John 10;10). So, in “real time presence (communionality)” we “Practice Pondering PLAY / PRAY” (‘Perfect Love Answers Yes’) / (‘Perfect Relationality Answers Yes’) ::: and, ‘Affirm Bless Celebrate’ (ABC) God’s ‘Creation / Creatures’ as per Mary’s “invite” ::: ‘See the child Jesus, says Mary, His Mother’ ::: ‘He is the Christ : come to Him : stay with Him’. What “Joy to our hearts”, in our ‘aloneness’ / ‘in our ‘loneliness’.
Finally: ‘Pondering’ is at ‘home’ in #33 mode ::: ‘more is less’ / ‘less is more’. You can engage #33 ‘production / presentation / practice’ under ‘CELEBRATE’ button.
Daniel (konect-1-2-1.com) 14/1/18