Sublime

Introduce people to each other

Looking beneath the surface of our default interpretations at the individual level, you are led back to a systemic perspective for interpreting individual behavior. What you really want to interpret are the needs of those constituencies that pull the strings.

In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore. They are so involved with themselves that other people are just not on their radar screen. Illuminators, on the other hand, have a pe

In situations like this, it is controlled chaos. I wish I had the code to unlock Michael’s mind. But no such code exists. All I can bring to the conversation are my heart and my trust that God wants me in the midst of this chaos. The imprisoned are the poorest of the poor. If the heart of God is to be found anywhere, it is to be found in the hole.

To lose our personhood for the sake of exponential increase in the speed of motion is to give us growth in impersonal realities at the cost of personhood. Modernity has succumbed to the temptation to choose speed and growth over personhood.