Comments on: Not Labeling is Freakin’ Hard! http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/not-labeling-is-freakin-hard/ A shift in Thinking and Practice to mend what is Damaged or Forgotten. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:24:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Jeromy http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/not-labeling-is-freakin-hard/#comment-649 Jeromy Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:58:58 +0000 http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-649 Hi Ana and welcome to the blogosphere! A reverter, huh? LOL...that's a label I haven't heard yet. How about this one, a former "backslider"? That one always comes off well ;-) . Thanks for the chuckle this morning! Hi Ana and welcome to the blogosphere! A reverter, huh? LOL…that’s a label I haven’t heard yet. How about this one, a former “backslider”? That one always comes off well ;-) . Thanks for the chuckle this morning!

]]> By: ana http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/not-labeling-is-freakin-hard/#comment-648 ana Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:16:29 +0000 http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-648 I started a blog yesterday. After writing a couple of posts I decided to look for some blogs to put on my blogroll. One blog led to another until eventually I ended up at 'Parchment and Pen,' where I read the post that contained the diagram. Responses there led me to other blogs that also ended up on my blogroll. Anyway - long story short - I had a dream last night where a guy approached me and said "So you're a reverter huh?" (Meaning that I had recently returned to Christianity.) I said "No, I'm a Christian. If you must use labels, don't you think that is a better one?" :) I started a blog yesterday. After writing a couple of posts I decided to look for some blogs to put on my blogroll. One blog led to another until eventually I ended up at ‘Parchment and Pen,’ where I read the post that contained the diagram. Responses there led me to other blogs that also ended up on my blogroll.

Anyway - long story short - I had a dream last night where a guy approached me and said “So you’re a reverter huh?” (Meaning that I had recently returned to Christianity.) I said “No, I’m a Christian. If you must use labels, don’t you think that is a better one?” :)

]]> By: Jeromy http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/not-labeling-is-freakin-hard/#comment-643 Jeromy Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:02:10 +0000 http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-643 "One of us is right, or neither of us is right, or we both have some things right, but there is a right." ~ God is right. No, but I agree with you. My comment was just a playful one about the Shack. I too "want to see past those things that divide, and love anyways". You made perfect sense. So, at this point, let's just disagree to agree ;-) ... lol, that kinda makes sense (kinda). “One of us is right, or neither of us is right, or we both have some things right, but there is a right.” ~ God is right. No, but I agree with you. My comment was just a playful one about the Shack.

I too “want to see past those things that divide, and love anyways”. You made perfect sense.

So, at this point, let’s just disagree to agree ;-) … lol, that kinda makes sense (kinda).

]]> By: Nicole http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/not-labeling-is-freakin-hard/#comment-642 Nicole Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:07:32 +0000 http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-642 lol. sure. if that helps you sleep at night. :) I am an odd mix I suppose.... I don't ever want to say "well, I guess we will just have to agree to disagree" - because I think truth is not so relative as that. One of us is right, or neither of us is right, or we both have some things right, but there is a right. Which is, of course, why I will never fit in the EC (well, one of the reasons at least). At the same time, I want to see past those things that divide, and love anyways, right? I think we fear that disagreeing and loving are somehow incompatible, probably because in our society, they are... that was rambly, did it make sense? labels suck. getting labeled sucks.... lol. sure. if that helps you sleep at night. :)

I am an odd mix I suppose…. I don’t ever want to say “well, I guess we will just have to agree to disagree” - because I think truth is not so relative as that. One of us is right, or neither of us is right, or we both have some things right, but there is a right. Which is, of course, why I will never fit in the EC (well, one of the reasons at least). At the same time, I want to see past those things that divide, and love anyways, right? I think we fear that disagreeing and loving are somehow incompatible, probably because in our society, they are… that was rambly, did it make sense?

labels suck. getting labeled sucks….

]]> By: Jeromy http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/not-labeling-is-freakin-hard/#comment-637 Jeromy Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:46:28 +0000 http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-637 Hmmm...very insightful. Its amazing how much we can learn from children. Your story brought a chuckle out of me and then sunk in at the end. What a terrific analogy...thanks for sharing! So I guess for the Shack, the thing we can focus on is the fact that we both read the book... ;-) lol Hmmm…very insightful. Its amazing how much we can learn from children. Your story brought a chuckle out of me and then sunk in at the end. What a terrific analogy…thanks for sharing!

So I guess for the Shack, the thing we can focus on is the fact that we both read the book… ;-) lol

]]> By: Nicole http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/not-labeling-is-freakin-hard/#comment-636 Nicole Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:17:23 +0000 http://mendingshift.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-636 I was at two friends' homes the other day - and my son asked me if the friend visiting at the one home was the same guy we talked to briefly at the first home... I chuckled and told him no. He said "oh, well they both had spikey hair." What interested me though, was that there is probably about 100 pounds difference between these two guys - and my five year old did not notice.... I want to be like that too... He did not see the things that set them apart, but the things that made them similar... I was at two friends’ homes the other day - and my son asked me if the friend visiting at the one home was the same guy we talked to briefly at the first home… I chuckled and told him no. He said “oh, well they both had spikey hair.” What interested me though, was that there is probably about 100 pounds difference between these two guys - and my five year old did not notice…. I want to be like that too… He did not see the things that set them apart, but the things that made them similar…

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