I'm, so glad that I signed up with Marie Forleo because she finds the best people to interview! She is always providing the content that I need to find so that I can keep pushing forward. God sets things up that way. Sometimes he has to get other people started, before we ourselves decide to get started, so that we can see how it is done!
I think she does a great job at bringing people together. I'm glad that I got introduced to this great author Brene Brown. I will do more research and read this book and then report back with a book review . . . but there were some things that really impressed me during her interview with Marie.
I know that she is a Christian, she is an author, she is a speaker, and she is a social behaviorist. These things are interesting to me because I am so very interested in why people think the way that they think.
Understanding the purpose of the Wilderness
I felt encouraged by the last quote of the book, the same one from above. Often times we do feel misunderstood. Sometimes we can feel totally alienated because it doesn't quite seem like people see things the way that we see things as an individual. I'm sure many beginner business people, entrepreneurs, leaders, and idea starters feel this way. But we have to understand that the Lord has to get us alone sometimes so that we can go through our own growth process. Like the Israelites, it is our own wilderness that allows us the time to grow and reflect. So, if people don't understand or try to convince you out of something that you have a passion for, tell them that you can do it; "I am the wilderness!"
Why do people hate?
She spoke a little on the events that took place in Charlottesville. She explained the "how and why" one group of people can justify their belief that they are better then another group of people. She said there has been a pattern throughout history of one group of people, being conditioned to think that they are morally superior to another group. This then allows thus said group to dehumanize the other group. It is a process called moral exclusion, where one group of people are slowly moved out of the moral scope of what is considered normal, acceptable, and moral. The group that has become targeted as the lesser, is then considered less than a understood standard of human.
Side note
We do this as humans because we are social beings. God has built in us a social standard for the growth of our social species. People don't even understand why they have to belittle someone in order to feel better about themselves. It is an imbalance of our self-centeredness (bought on from the fall of man and the sin that is with in us) and our need to be fruitful and multiply. We wouldn't have this hatred in the world if we didn't created this internal debate with inside of us. This is why we need a savior. We are making such a big mess of the world and we want to blame God. No, God is not the blame. It is the destruction that sin has set upon the system that God has originally set in place. God will set it back in order when we accept that he is the only one who knows the order. . .
She claims that this is the basis of most genocides in history. When some self proclaimed leader starts to condition a group of people with words, pictures, and ideas about another group of people, he is then creating an atmosphere for genocide.
This is what Hitler did to the so called Jews. This is what slave masters did to their black slaves; an idea that has lived on until this day with the growing strength of the Ku-Klux-Klan. One may ask, why do they think what they think. . . how can they believe something so ludicrous and hateful? Well, they truly believe that they are a superior race and that everyone else is sub-human.
Why do we believe what we believe? Why do we think the way that we think?
Just remember that we become what we are taught. This is why Christianity is such a good moral guide to how we should really be living. We believe what we believe because of the gift of faith that has been given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ. For us that grew up in the Church, we have been conditioned with a whole lot of other ideas of what a Christian should be, some good/ some bad, but let us understand that we need to let the Holy Spirit guide us. Thus, it is not necessary to grow up in the church to be a Christian. Instead, to be a Christian you just have to have a willing mind/ heart to accept the gift of grace, the gift of faith, and the gift of salvation from our Lord.
Let us not be ignorant, let us not be proud, let us not be degrading of anyone else and their personal beliefs. Instead, let us stand out as being loving, and accepting of the person, but denouncing their moral understanding if it does not go with the teachings of the word of God. Most are offended by that because they feel like it is a hateful attack. But we as Christians are not attacking out of hate or moral exclusion, we are informing people of the truth out of love. This is what makes us different from other religions, codes, and ideas. Jesus does not want us to hate, but he wants us to love.
Check out the interview, check out the book!
It is all very interesting to me . . . but
that is not all that the book is about. Brene Brown talks about other
concepts in the book like "Braving," where she explains how we should
practice our communication and build positive lasting relationships with
the people we spend our time with. Braving is an acronym for:
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