tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340236720942464698.post1088680917365605304..comments2023-05-03T07:22:20.386-06:00Comments on Good Soil: Never Covered With ShameLindy Kefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453677860413036875noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340236720942464698.post-77884408064902054062013-05-28T19:27:08.219-06:002013-05-28T19:27:08.219-06:00Did Brene Brown make any comments on how, in our c...Did Brene Brown make any comments on how, in our culture, a lot of humor has to do with shame?<br /><br />I'm thinking mostly of how some humor arouses shame, but people think it's funny.<br />There's also the kind of humor that's doing something shameful & pretending that it's funny.<br /><br />Or am I just super-sensitive to this, and other people don't notice it so much?reepicheep78https://www.blogger.com/profile/13799411570431275159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340236720942464698.post-57563754778179604622013-05-27T09:50:02.137-06:002013-05-27T09:50:02.137-06:00I can't wait to hear what you think. It was so...I can't wait to hear what you think. It was so good to see you!<br />Lindy Kefferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453677860413036875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340236720942464698.post-4816051763519871432013-05-25T11:18:14.844-06:002013-05-25T11:18:14.844-06:00FINALLY downloaded it. :o). It was so lovely seei...FINALLY downloaded it. :o). It was so lovely seeing you, friend.Beccyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05255968576744501554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340236720942464698.post-46533273905460160992013-05-22T16:43:36.095-06:002013-05-22T16:43:36.095-06:00"The solution is to decide what my master wou..."The solution is to decide what my master would have me do and keep reminding my heart of that."<br /><br />I love it. Lindy Kefferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453677860413036875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340236720942464698.post-22082761726641180342013-05-22T13:28:51.408-06:002013-05-22T13:28:51.408-06:00I would be curious to know how Brene Brown decided...I would be curious to know how Brene Brown decided to call those who don't live with a "crushing weight of shame" "wholehearted." You rephrase that as "those who live with their hearts intact." <br /><br />The reason I'm curious is that as soon as I heard Brene Brown use "wholehearted" in her TED talk, I thought of Matt. 6:21-24: "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money." (ESV)<br /><br />Let me make clearer where "wholehearted" appears in Matt. 6:21-24. In verse 22 we English speakers read the phrase, "If your eye is healthy." In Greek the word for "healthy" is "haplous." Here specifically Jesus means "healthy" as in "good" or "doing what it's supposed to," but in a wider sense (not just of eyes), "haplous" means "simple, single" or "whole." A good eye doesn't see double.<br /><br />But one of my professors pointed out that the intriguing thing about the "healthy eye" of Matt. 6:22-23 is that Jesus places this illustration in the middle of talking about the heart: What's your treasure? What master are you serving?<br /><br />It makes sense to me to connect a heart not enslaved to shame with a healthy eye because one thing that sets off shame for me is being pulled between expectations. When I'm concentrating on one thing and confident that that task is what I'm to be doing right now, then I'm not ashamed. I am ashamed when I'm doing something but I feel I should have gotten it done some time ago & should be doing something else. My solution for this is to -- well, I called it being wholehearted before now -- to make up my mind what I should be doing & stick to that plan. The solution is to have a single eye, to just keep looking at what I should be looking at. The solution is to decide what my master would have me do and keep reminding my heart of that.reepicheep78https://www.blogger.com/profile/13799411570431275159noreply@blogger.com