This reminds me of the dwarves in the Last Battle by C. S Lewis (last book in Chronicles of Narnia). When they realized they had been fooled into believing in a false Aslan, their bitterness turned into doubting there was a real Aslan. They could no longer move forward or appreciate a feast, to them it was all lies because they had been lied to. Though a feast was in front of them, they saw it was only old bread and dirty water.
Thank you for this. You're not the only one with scabs that itch to be picked-at. I needed that paragraph on "Reactive vs Generative Building," particularly.
I was part of a church congregation where most of the people left, and many of them have not joined another; if you talk to them they blame everything from not being well-read to loss of family unity on this congregation, and their inability to move on has always puzzled me. I think being unwilling to admit we willingly followed someone to a place that turned out to be bad is part of the problem- it’s always about what they did wrong, never about what I did wrong.
This reminds me of the dwarves in the Last Battle by C. S Lewis (last book in Chronicles of Narnia). When they realized they had been fooled into believing in a false Aslan, their bitterness turned into doubting there was a real Aslan. They could no longer move forward or appreciate a feast, to them it was all lies because they had been lied to. Though a feast was in front of them, they saw it was only old bread and dirty water.
Thank you for this. You're not the only one with scabs that itch to be picked-at. I needed that paragraph on "Reactive vs Generative Building," particularly.
I was part of a church congregation where most of the people left, and many of them have not joined another; if you talk to them they blame everything from not being well-read to loss of family unity on this congregation, and their inability to move on has always puzzled me. I think being unwilling to admit we willingly followed someone to a place that turned out to be bad is part of the problem- it’s always about what they did wrong, never about what I did wrong.