I'm a well-balanced human being....

I’ve heard so much yuppy nonsense in my life about being well-balanced and on the other side of it, so much well-aimed criticism of anything nearing the borders of the extreme.

Did anyone ever pause to wonder, that maybe it isn’t the ’extreme’ that is the problem, maybe it’s what is chosen to be extreme about. There are a lot of extremes in this world that we don’t consider to be a detrimental thing.

I seem to remember something about a certain person, he said a lot of things….He told people to sell everything they owned, to give up their lives and follow him, He said he had no place to lay his head, I also recall something about taking up your own cross and following him, renouncing everything.
RENOUNCING EVERYTHING

So either I am a little confused as to the definition of the word ’extreme’ or I am a little confused about what this one person said and did, even though a lot of it seems irrevocably straight-forward. Because it seems as though we are told to be extreme about something: loving God and loving others.

And if I remember correctly, there’s this whole crazy story. It involves God becoming a baby, a human, living among people, loving them, telling them He was the way to the Father, and then….dying a horrible death for our sins. But that doesn’t sound extreme at all. I mean, don’t get the wrong idea, living with basically no possessions, giving your life up to help and love others, and then dying for them when they were ignorant, ungrateful wretches…… that’s so well-balanced.

skimming through some stuff this morning....and I came across this. (scroll and read the article entitled Post-Hope) The problem with hope isn't hoping, it's where we place that hope, where we place our expectations.

"To be post-hope is to embrace love and duty despite all evidence around us. And to embrace our duty is to find motivation not in the hope of mountaintop success, but in love."

That is what hope should look like.......