I was trying to fit through a narrow opening this morning and thought about the "harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven" passage. I thought wow. I realized that this passage often understood as anti-riches is not about that at all. Living thinly is not about size or weight it is about baggage excess hurt and pain that we carry that we try to care for by getting things like money popularity etc. They all get in the way of living on earth as beings live in heaven. In heaven everyone is free from baggage. I recalled the story of a rich man who lined his coffin with gold anticipating it s value in heaven. When he arrived and St Peter asked him why he brought all this stuff with him. He commented stuff this is gold! Peter responded yeah I know we use it to pave the streets here in heaven.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about thin slicing as a way to size up people or situations or things. Maybe we should live "thinly" with the same perspective.
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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