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W2 ysberg
- 1. Kyk onder die oppervlak! Spr4:20-23 Jak 1:1-8 & 3:13-18
- 5. Hoe lyk joubinnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
- 6. Hoe lyk joubinnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
- 7. Hoe lyk joubinnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
- 8. Hoe lyk joubinnewêreld? What does your inner world look like? If God ever allowed us to see more than one percent of our sin, we would fall down dead!”
- 9. •Raak ontslae vandie “perfekte prentjie” •Get rid of the “perfect picture” Hoe lyk jou binnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
- 10. •Raak ontslae vandie “perfekte prentjie” •Get rid of the “perfect picture” Hoe lyk jou binnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
- 11. •Raak ontslae vandie “perfekte prentjie” •Get rid of the “perfect picture” Hoe lyk jou binnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
- 12. •Raak ontslae vandie “perfekte prentjie” •Get rid of the “perfect picture” Hoe lyk jou binnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
- 13. •Raak ontslae vandie “perfekte prentjie” •Get rid of the “perfect picture” Hoe lyk jou binnewêreld? What does your inner world look like?
Editor's Notes
- #2 Or is this really a mystery? Although we tend to think of life in terms of categories – emotional, physical, relational, financial, spiritual, and so on – the reality is that these categories are simply convenient labels for specific aspects of the integrated whole that comprises our life. Because life in a very fundamental sense is an integrated whole, perhaps it would be even more surprising and mysterious if changes in one aspect of my life did not impact the other aspects. 3 stories… 1. Poisonwood Bible 2. Titanic 3. Lamborghini.
- #3 Soek orals behalwe behalwe binne myself – storie van Poisenwood Bible p 71 Deur Barbara Kingsolver. Storie van Nathan Prince – gedtermineerde ywrige sendeling wat die Worod van God in die Belgiese Kongo wil bring. Dis 1959 – en dis politieke deurmekaar tyd, Maar niks skrik Nathan af niew. Hy het immers in sy 3 maande tydens WW2 verskeie vriende op die gevegsfront verloor. Juis daarom het hy gedertmineerd gekom om meer siele te red as wat gesterf het. Ten spyte van sy vrou se bedenkinge en die swaarkry wat voorle – is Nathan saam met sy 4 kinders Afrika in. Die boek vertel hulle storei van 30 jaar – en die hoe Orleanna Prince en die vier kinders die situasie beleef… Op die ou einde eindig hulle almal op as slagoffers van sy weiering om lank en hard diep binne homself te kyk..,. Dit is ook die ding wat uistaan in dieboek – die gebrek aan begrip - nie net van homnomgels, sy vrou, sy kinders nie maar ook dei Kongoloese mense – bv hulle vrees vir die doop ind ie rivier – wat vol krokodille is. En seker die vreemdse is sy misverstaan van die taal – waar ‘n intonasie verskil kan beteken “ heerlikheid, waardevol en helder ” dit andersins beteken “ poisonwood tree ” soos hy dit in Amerikaanse aksent uitsrpeek. Aan die einde van elke preek groet hy dan met – “ jesus is golrious ” en hulle hoor “ Jesus is poisonwood! ” Sy dogter Adah sê die voglende aan die einde van die boek: “I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible” So behalwe vir die moeilike omstandighede om te leefm, gaan die eintlike storie oor hoe die familie hulle pa se Christenskap (en swak teologie) oorleef… wat hom daarvan weerhou om mense lief te hê… Hy is op autopilot for God, a machine.. Zeolous to win souls and do God’s work.. Orleanna probeer haar bes om die familie te beskerm enaan haar man onderdanig te wees soos verwag word.,..en so is sy ook magteloos om haar kinders te beskerm … tot die tragiese gevolg dat die jongste staerf omdat Nathan weier om haar te laat uitvlieg ten spyte van die pleidooie van sy gffamilie en ander sendelinge. Die einde-einde is dat sy huwelik disintegreer terwyl hy aanhou sendingwwerk doen… “ Nathan habitually overlooked me. If I complained about our life, he would chew his dinner while looking tactfully away, as one might ignore a child who has deliberately broken her dolls and then whines that she has nothing to play with. To save my sanity, I learned to pad around hardship in soft slippers and try to remark on its good points.” Dit is dalk esktreem .. Maar die tragiek is dat sy lewe inmekaar krummel terwyl hy steeds nie na binne kyk nie… en so baie van ons ook!\
- #4 2. Onder die Ysberg… Titanic se storie – Bybel noem hierdie plek onder die oppervlak – jou HART – Spr 4:23 3.…. CS Lewis: Chronicles – Voyage of the Dawn Treader.. Eustave, ‘n jong seun word ‘n draak agv van sy selfsug, koppigheid, en ongeloof… Nou wil hy terugverander… Maar hy kan nie dit regkry nie.. Aslan neem hom na bad, maar omdt hy draak is kan hy nie in. Aslan sê hy moet uittrek – Hy trek die velle af laag vir laag envoel beter, maar elke keer is daar nog ‘n laag… gefrustreerd: “ Hoeveel moet ek nog afskil? ” “ Then the lion said — but I don’t know if it spoke — You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I just lay flat down on my back to let him do it. “ The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt. The only thing that made me able to bear it was jut the pleasure of feeling the stuff peel off. You know — if you’ve ever picked the scab of a sore place. It hurts like billy-oh but it is such fun to see it coming away.” “ I know exactly what you mean,” said Edmund. “ Well, he peeled the beastly stuff right off – just as I thought I’d done it myself the other three times, only they hadn’t hurt – and there it was lying on the grass, only ever so much thicker, and darker, and more knobbly-looking than the others had been. And there was I smooth and soft as a peeled switch and smaller than I had been. Then he caught hold of me – I didn’t like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I’d no skin on — and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started swimming and splashing I found that all the pain had gone from my arm. And then I saw why. I’d turned into a boy again. . . … . Pynlik eerlik – Joh 8:32 & Pyn is baie keer die stimilus om onder die oppervlak te gaan (Jak 1:2-3)
- #5 VIERDE STORIE…. SAAMVAT: Hierdie is Lamborghini Countach.. Eienaar vertel van trots toe hy hom koop en hoe dit hom laat goed voel en selfs aansien verky… maar hoe hy toe besluit het om te verkoop.. Want sien dit was NAMAAKSEL… onder was dit op ou Pontiac se onderstel… so dit was nie so vinnig en het eindeloese probleme gegee… Volledig: Lamborghini CountachThis past weekend I sold my Lamborghini Countach replica (pictured above), and in reflecting on my motives for wanting to sell it I realized that those motives are closely linked to the insights that led me to modify my approach towards weight loss and improving my physique. One of the seeming mysteries of life is the way that insights and events in one aspect of your life can influence seemingly unconnected aspects. Or is this really a mystery? Although we tend to think of life in terms of categories – emotional, physical, relational, financial, spiritual, and so on – the reality is that these categories are simply convenient labels for specific aspects of the integrated whole that comprises our life. Because life in a very fundamental sense is an integrated whole, perhaps it would be even more surprising and mysterious if changes in one aspect of my life did not impact the other aspects.In any event, having just outlined some of the changes that have occurred in my approach to physical fitness and health let me draw some of the parallels with my decision to sell my Lamborghini. To begin with let me state that for me the Lamborghini Countach is the ultimate sports car in terms of its style and appearance – indeed this is why I purchased it in the first place. For pure looks the Countach is hard to beat, and anytime I was out and about in this car it always gathered a crowd. The admirers generally fell into one of two categories: people that had never seen a car anything like this before and liked what they saw, and people who had admired the Countach since they were young and considered it their ultimate dream car. I can say from having had the experience of owning and driving this car around Houston I have had at least a glimpse of what celebrity must feel like. It was not at all unusual for me to pull up at a traffic light and have people roll down their windows so they could take pictures of my car with their cell phones or their digital cameras!So in terms of surface appearances, this car was all I could ask for. But as I mentioned above, this car is actually a Lamborghini replica – not a genuine Lamborghini Countach. The genuine article would cost a minimum of $100,000 and can easily be considerably more than than depending on the condition of the vehicle. My car was fiberglass replica mounted on a Pontiac Fiero chassis (modified to match the wheelbase of the Lamborghini). As such most of the “guts” of this vehicle – in other words, its underlying structure – are actually from a 1985 Fiero. Because the fiberglass body makes the car very light, the original transverse mounted Pontiac V-6 actually makes this car fairly responsive – although it obviously nowhere near as fast or maneuverable as the authentic V-12 Lamborghini. The advantage of the replica (above and beyond the reduced price tag) is that it is affordable to insure and drive, and unless you are very familiar with original vehicle it is very difficult to distinguish from the real McCoy.Although the chassis, engine, and transmission are all standard Pontiac components, pretty much everything else is custom manufactured and therefore very difficult to find and expensive to purchase when something goes wrong. For example, I had to replace one of the hinges on the trademark scissor-style doors and that little episode took almost a year to complete as I searched in vain for the necessary parts and eventually had to have a custom hinge fabricated! So although this car looked great, it did not perform to anything even close to the original Lamborghini, but it was very much like the authentic Lamborghini in that maintenance and repairs tended to be very expensive and time consuming. Driving this car did give me a good feel for some of the sacrifices that need to be made in order to support its stylish lines. The most obvious of these is limited visibility. Rear visibility is extremely limited due to the minuscule size of the rear window, so much so that the side mirrors truly are your best friend when driving in heavy traffic. One problem with my replica was that these side mirrors could only be adjusted by hand, and since the windows did not roll down this posed quite a challenge if a mirror went out of alignment while driving! My friends used to joke that there was no need to worry about this limitation, since the motto of anyone driving a car that looks like this one should be “what is behind me is unimportant!”Now the parallels between the nature of this replica car – great surface appearances, but less than an ideal underlying structure – and my discussion about improving my physique are obvious and don’t need to be spelled out. But as I have been trying to do in other aspects of my life, let’s dig a little deeper and see what really lies beneath the surface – for it says a lot about the transformation that Spirit is helping me to manifest in my life. The fact that the surface appearance of this vehicle masked a less than spectacular underlying structure is just the tip of the iceberg. What Lies Beneath the SurfaceMy desire to sell this car was germinated over a year ago, when I earnestly began to examine my life in light of what seemed to be missing – a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Despite having “status” and a fancy job title, plenty of money, toys and diversions (like my “Lambo”), it was clear that something fundamental was missing in my life. It turns out that that “something” was a relationship with Spirit – with God. As I shifted my focus from the material to the spiritual, I naturally began to examine the underlying structures and premises that had defined my life up to that point. I did not like what I saw.Most of my life was organized around the principle of success, and unfortunately my definition of success at the time was profoundly influenced by our consumer oriented society. Success was essentially equivalent to monetary wealth and the associated attributes – large and expensive houses, fancy cars, and so on – and in this sense my Lamborghini replica was one the emblems of my success. It was a visible, public indication that I was a “successful” person – never mind the fact that underneath that surface appearance I was really asking myself: it this all there is? Is the purpose of life to simply get better, higher paying jobs so you can buy more stuff so you can impress the people around you? And who was I trying to impress anyways?As I worked on really understanding and untangling those structures – mainly through my work with the Spiritwaevers group it became clear that a central component of my self-definition was framed in terms of failure and success. It also became clear that this aspect of self-definition was completely bogus. As I noted in my previous post on Embracing… from a spiritual perspective my intrinsic value and worth as a person is in no way linked to my success or failure. Owning and driving a Lamborghini – even an authentic Lamborghini – does not make me a better person than someone who drives a Hyundai! What really lay beneath the surface was a profound, almost overwhelming sense of my own unworthiness and lack of intrinsic value – and the role of my emblems of success was to disguise and hide that sense of inadequacy. http://starlightwalker.com/blog/?cat=45
- #6 SO DIE VRAAG IS HOE LYK JOU BINNEWERELD…. Oefening vi die WEEK JOHARI…
- #7 Vandag sou ons reken Jesus was emosioneel volwasse: Johan 13:3 .. Jresus was besig om voete te was… hy was ten volle bewus van wie hy was en wat hy meos doen.. In beheer .. En daarom kon hy as “ slaaf ” neerbuig… Ons het reds gesê Jesus het nie sy emosies odnerdruk of geprojekteer nie.. Huil – Lasarus Kwaad vir sy dissipels /verontwaardig (kindertjies verhinder) Woedend vir tempelhandel Verbasing oor iemand se groot geloof Wou graag by sy dissipels wees Compasssion – weduwee, melaats, blindes Jesushet onder die ysberg ingegaan en mensie se intensie ontbloot… Baie van ons is “Self concious”, maar nie self-aware (Storie van Bill) “ You can’t depend on you emotions. You can’t let your emotions run you” – MAAR ons emosies beinvloed ons – al wil ons nie. ” Bill” : Al wat ek as kind wou hê was vriendskap, maar die ander kinders het weggehardloop… daarom het ek harde buitemuur om my gebo – ek het met niemand gedeel wat in my binnewêreld aangaan nie. – ‘n huwelik wat opgebreek het het hom forseer om onder die opvercvlak te kyk – ek was soos goed geoliede masjien in konkruit blok” Pasop vir self absorbeerde introspeksie . Dis eerder die toelaat dat die evangelie jou verander Hoe kan jy iemand anders se wêreld binnegaan as jy nog nie jou eie binnegegaan het nie?
- #8 Joh 4: Hoekom is jy hier middel van dag, hoekom hardloop jy van man tot man, watter leemte probeer jy vul. Sy probeer sidetrack om bo die oppervlak te bly. Hoekom is ek altyd aand ie hardloop Hoekom is ek angstig Hoekom is dit vir my so belangrik dat mense sê ek is OK as…leier… koor.. Werker Hoekom sien ek so op teen die vergadering/klas/oefening vandag Hoekom is dit vir my so sleg om te verloor Hoekom vermy ek sekere mense/oproepe/sms ’e Hoekom moet ek altyd die middelpunt wees Hoekom moet ek altyd ou/meisie he? DIT BETEKEN ek moet stil word en stilsit en die vrae vra. En die hoekoms lei tot die WAT voor God: Here WAT beteken dit? Here WAT wil u vir my sê Here WAT leer ek van myself? WAT leer ek van die lewe? WAT leer ek van ander?
- #9 Ons lees goed soos Jak 1:4… maar ons vergeet van God se genade!!! God se geande is soos vangnet as ons die diep donkertes van ons binnewereld ingaan… LEES 2 Kor 5:21 – oor sonde Want sien anders probeer EK so hard om liefe te wees vir ander.. Te vergewe en ek kan nie. MAAR ek voel SKULDig want dit word tog verwag.. Daarom kan ek nie erlik en oop wees nie… ±EN DIS die bootom line van EG en die evangelie.. Dat ons maar vol krake kan wees… “ My sin patterns don’ t surprise God or threaten my standing with Him. He calls me His beloved because of Christ ’ s flawlessness, not mine! I no longer “ have to keep up appearances ” with myself, God or anyone else.