admitting vs doing

We've read before, admitting something is the first step.  While agreeing, I've bumped into many colleagues who stop after the first step.

I actually heard this sentence uttered last week:

"I don't know how that works so we won't be doing it."

That person did a great job of taking the first step, and that step was into a guillotine where the ideas head was lopped off and rolled across the floor scuffing my scuffed but not too scuffed shoes.

This week in my quest to read the whole Bible (I'm 1600 pages in with 120 pages left!) I started reading the letters in the New Testament.  I already knew that was where the meat of the Bible was at, the power punches are in Romans, Corinthians and Ephesians and on.

What I didn't realize is how much more powerful they are when contained as one idea.  Romans is a single idea, do you realize how amazing that is?  I used to find it difficult to understand  some of these really deep letters, these monsters of theology and ideals.  And oddly enough, I found them to be more digestible when consumed as one meal, the ideas in the letters actually shed light on the conundrums in the same letter.

So, going back to my little work friend who beheads ideas, let us not just internalize sections of wisdom.  Let us start to put together coherent moments, then days, the lives.  Let us stop taking single steps and start running the race in such a way as to win.

What if it's not a disorder?

We all know the helicopter parent society we live in where people are in continuous fear of something bad happening and yet more and more bad things are being discovered.  New allergies, new diseases and most of all, all kinds of new disorders.

The following quote was in an multi-article blog post about a concept called "Food Reward":

...This also implies that obesity may not be a disorder, but rather a normal response to the prevailing dietary environment in affluent nations.

BOOM!

That's the most powerful sentence I've read in a while.  The concept being that people are literally fighting against the current.  The entire word, DISORDER, is based on the concept that things are not in order.  

But what if being three hundred pounds is perfectly in order IN THIS SOCIETY.  

What if being addicted to porn is perfectly in order IN THIS SOCIETY.  

What if hating who you are and how you look is perfectly in order IN THIS SOCIETY.

A few extra side points.  What order are you building in your life that makes things normal?  What order do you build at your Job that makes things normal?  What is your spiritual order and what do you consider normal spiritual happenings?