There was a thread recently where a question was asked but not answered and I can't remember where it is.
The question was something like ,"Why in other religions do we refer to their stories as myths but in Christianity we refer to the stories as truth? What is the difference?"
Wednesday’s Sharing Circle at the TRC (see earlier blog) also invited a former teacher to give voice to her difficult experience in a school in Saskatchewan. She arrived as a new, young teacher eager and ready for her vocation. Then she saw the dreadful basement room in which she and her students were expected to spend their days.
Bearing witness to truth is a first step toward healing and reconciliation. Facing one another as we speak truth holds the promise that we might truly listen to the depth of our own truth and the depth of others’ truth, that we might hear the cry of our own souls and the cry of others’ souls.
As mentioned in my earlier blog, yesterday I was given the honour of speaking on behalf of The United Church of Canada at the Opening Session of the first national gathering of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with TRC Commissioners and other leaders (Aboriginal, government, and church leaders). I began by making clear that I spoke not only for our church as Moderator but also for myself.
This morning I head to Montreal for a weekend of helping United Theological College mark the completion of its Designated Lay Ministry Residential program. Another poignant few days in a week marked by countless and varied 85th anniversary celebrations for The United Church of Canada.
All our "problems" have to do with control. The lack of control keeps us from happiness.
Truth is relative to you, showing that nothing is set and nothing is in control of you unless you give it that control by makeing it matter somehow.
Would the truth about the relativity of truth therefore lead to happiness because it empowers us and frees us from the self sustained "the shackles of illusion" by alowing only the things we want to matter to us matter to us, giving us full control?
The modern separation between “meaning” and “truth” is leading us to a very sterile and meaningless existence.This differentiation may also be a primary reason that we are disconnecting with each other and our precious planet. Let me explain...
