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sometimes I think I do to BE.
I’m the first to comment!
Yay!
It’s because I’m so busy doing important things on the tinternet
Aww dennis you bandit! You beat me to it!
Ha ha can you believe how excited I was to see I won! A Bandit? cool I like that name. Soz Kayte
Anyone else think this seems to be a chronic condition in “Westernized” societies?
Sometimes a double-edged “benefit” of one’s health crashing is that he then acquires plenty of time to “Just Be”. (whether he desires it or not)
I DO and it shapes who i believe myself to BE. If i was able to be comfortable with who i was in my being would i discover what i was able to do in my doing in a more meaningful way.
How does one stop my DOING and learn to understand my being in that way?
I’m not sure
but
I think that I keep busy because
I fear that you’ll notice…
Hey Will, do you think we’ve come to see “doing” as being “being” – one must do, for one to be.
You won’t believe this (well, you will…
) ) but I wrote about this on my depression blog yesterday!
Human Beings and Human Doings
just so true
and I get tetchy with the people I love, because I forget how important they are, and just get tetchy
because I’m in a flap about everything
I’m BEING at present and it’s driving me CRAZY….wanna be DOING. Please give me something to DO!!!!
I suck at meditation for this very reason. I finally said screw it and now do walking meditations.
Its not as straightforward as it appears tho, as I think we are called to be doers of the word aswell as hearers. Its the issue of balance again, when we become defined by our doing instead of defined by the Being to whom we belong.
I think we can also be busy as a way of masking things we can’t deal with or face, in ourselves, our relationships etc. Thats not good for us in the long run really.
I think it can be something about the busy 24/7 culture that is really damaging to our mental health, and rather than get dragged along on the tide of it, we have to choose to step off and make reflective time, for our own protection, and those around us.
My doing comes out of my being….
http://www.beatthedrum.wordpress.com
forrest @ #8. i really do think that. For me at least there have been times in my life when i have only found any level of purpose when i perceive that what i am doing has any value and therefore I only have self worth when that is the case. When i look at those times i see that my being is watered down and pigeon holed into an activity (regardless how worthwhile it is it is not who i am just something i have done).
perhaps it is my desire to be affirmed and praised that i look for my actions to shape who i am.
Sorry for not having commented but I’ve been doing and not being recently!
Oh, that’s a really good point Will.
beatthedrum makes a good point.
Is there anyone who posts here who does not make good points?
Just wondering if Forrest (#17) is making a good or bad point.. in not so sure?
A prayer of balance from the Methodist covenant service…..
‘I am no longer my own but yours.
Put me to what you will,
rank me with whom you will;
put me to doing,
put me to suffering;
let me be employed for you,
or laid aside for you,
exalted for you,
or brought low for you;
let me be full,
let me be empty,
let me have all things,
let me have nothing:
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things
to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
you are mine and I am yours.’
do-be-do-be-do…
Sounds like the recipe for a good song…!
Everybody join in….
A very true comic.
I think the reason many people keep themselves busy is that it’s the easiest way to advoid thinking about what & who they are.
Taking an extremely academic, logic or philosophical approach to your own being is of cause also an efficient strategy to advoid really thinking about who and what you are.
i like steves comment 20. ha ha “Everybody join in”
I do very much try to enter a place of stillness, and nurture my relationship with God. So am an advocate of being more than doing. There have however, been times in my life, when I’ve faced something difficult for me, where the opportunity to loose myself in doing has really helped.
I also think ‘doing’ can be a great bonding experience, working together and sharing chores has a long history within the Christian communities.
perhaps, it’s not about either or, more of a willingness to enter into different places, to engage and relate to God in multiple ways.
I agree Subo – it’s a very seductive (and fashionable
) but ultimately false, dichotomy. As with so many things, it’s a matter of keeping the right balance surely?
our Doing in some way authentically reflecting our Being
is a concept that (IMHO) changes with age.
and maybe with ilness/disability
or does it?
all i know is that there comes a time……
I can see your point gilly – certainly in any set-up where ‘doing’ is a prime determinant of ‘value’. Have you ever read Bill Vanstone’s book ‘The Stature of Waiting’? He has some very interesting thoughts around this area – which he draws from reflections on the last hours of Jesus’ life when he moves from being an active agent to being a passive recipient of other peoples’ actions.
If you plant bulbs you get daffodils. They flourish fully into what they are. They don’t become what they do.
#26 Pat- Vanstone’s one of my favourite authors…
That’s a helpful way of looking at it Robb – thanks. And of course, it then reminds one of ‘the lilies of the field’ in which Jesus took such evident pleasure
Mine too gilly
i wear myself out so much. i’m so tired cos i’m scared that if i ever stop doing stuff for people they won’t like me anymore.
Hey Christine @30 – I hear this so often from my clients and when they have taken the plunge and tried ‘not doing’ for a change, they usually find their friends are happy to have an opportunity to do something for them for once. If there are people in your life who only like you because of what you do for them, they are not real friends – someone said to me once “those who mind, don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind”. Really hope you can take a chance
Christine (30), Ruth (31),
Great book – In Praise Of Slow, by Carl Honore – easy to find in sociology sections of bookshops.
It’s also true that most people actually like you more if you do a little less for them.
Happy medium. Much love to you both.