The authors write, “The same dynamic is true for all of us. We make hundreds of choices ever day, ranging from the mundane (which sock do I put on first?) to the more profound (how might I support this hurting person or situation?) All of these decisions flow from the person that has been formed in us, and every decision that we make contributes to our ongoing formation towards the person the Lord is calling us to be. Each of us is like an iceberg with the vast majority of our identity submerged below the surface, shaped there by many years to guide us in those crucial moments of choice.”
I am reading former college housemate and friend Syd Hielema’s and former student Aaron Baart’s book Vivid: Deepening Your Colors on deepening and enriching our life’s experience and I came across this great quotation by Iris Murdoch. “At crucial moments of choice, most of the business of choosing is already over.” I think this could be paradigm shaping phrase for Christian schooling or parenting or church discipling. We sometimes stand amazed at the courageous decisions people make in their lives and they themselves might shrug it off as an easy choice made with hardly a second thought. It might be false modesty but it is more likely that all the choices and all the nurturing and education and character formation that have happened before that moment did in fact make the last choice a natural one, the right one.
The authors write, “The same dynamic is true for all of us. We make hundreds of choices ever day, ranging from the mundane (which sock do I put on first?) to the more profound (how might I support this hurting person or situation?) All of these decisions flow from the person that has been formed in us, and every decision that we make contributes to our ongoing formation towards the person the Lord is calling us to be. Each of us is like an iceberg with the vast majority of our identity submerged below the surface, shaped there by many years to guide us in those crucial moments of choice.”
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Henk van hove
11/17/2017 07:55:32 am
Which brings up the touchy subject of, is there really ‘ free will’.
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