okay. von here. this post is not so much to explain my outburst today, but to give yall something to think about. i hope it actually stimulate some thots.
whatever the definition of fully alive is for each of us, i have no problem with that. in fact, it all sounds logical and i agree with most of whatever you guys said. i am just very against it because the phrase 'fully alive' is vague and its definition was not finalised or even thot of until very much later (to try and convince me perhaps). plus, as i have explained, it makes perfect sense only in St. Iraneus' statement:
The glory of God is man fully alive
(hence my sharing of my own interpretation w some of fr garcia's input)
i am also against it because it is a very nice phrase to use, and hence might be a distraction, when the vision of log could have been more accurate. just like how i insisted erasing mel mel's sentence so we dont have to be limited by the structure of his sentence and to try and fit in the elements. forming the vision shld involve more of extracting the essence of log and putting it down in plain simple english.
it means that when you think of log, what do you think of? do you think about living your lives to glorify God everyday?
personally, when i think of log, i think about the relationships we share, the support we give to each other, here or overseas, sharing the illnesses and deaths of relatives, but also celebrating achievements like passing driving or ORD, random HTHTs/lunchtime masses/supper/intellectually stimulating talks, i think about the people who have been part of log, and hope that one day they will be part of us again, and also the people at the peripherals who need the most support. i am not saying it is wrong to try and live fully alive. i am saying that if we form a vision that is not the essence of log, we will forget the vision just like we forgot the previous one. when i think of log, 'fully alive' does not capture the essence of what you guys are to me. yes, living to glorify God in every single one of my actions, everyday of my life, is a goal and log might challenge me to a certain extent. but for now, i would want a vision that is succinct and accurate, so that it can work for every individual logger. what is log to you? what is the best part that log has given you? the opportunity and challenge to live fully alive to glorify God everyday?
ps. this post was not written to step on anybody's toes. if you are offended, i truly apologise in advance
2 Comments:
hello =) i affirm u for insisting tt my sentence be erased. i completely dint mean for my input to be used as any sort of structure so i apologize if it meddled e vision-forming process.
but in e spirit of forming our vision, i also wanna add on to what u said. cos i think a vision is not just abt where we are now, or e best tt community has been to us. a vision has to be e best tt community can ever be.
so we gotta think abt not only what log has been to us. we also gotta think abt what we want log to be. what log can be. what log should be.
but yes. i do agree w ur push for everyone to be precise. we are not lawyers (laughs), we are visionaries. we are using words to define our vision, not using our vision to validate the words we come up with. so yes. let's be precise.
Can I then ask what would be a more suitable word to replace fully alive?
Nigel