Born into a Fremont Perspective
Growing up in Rural Ohio was not much different than the place I’m at now. I was smaller then than I am now (hence the “growing up” line), and so the world was a lot bigger, making me think that Fremont, Ohio was a metropolis in one of the top 10 populated states in America. Certainly it was much bigger than Clyde or Green Springs!
It’s amazing how your perspective changes as you go through different stages of life. The world is getting smaller, and I’m coming to realize more and more how important people are. Not just people who look like me and act like me and are in my life circumstance, but everyone.
The best thing to me about this metamorphing of my perspective over the years is the way I read Scripture. I know longer just read it (in the teaching sense) for what it says to my personal circumstance in Fremont, or in Pensacola, or only in Worcester, Massachusetts. I’m coming to understand that it is for the whole world. For the Pygmy in Australia and the Tribal Leader in Africa to the police officer on the west coast and the Meter Maid in Saltillo, Mexico.
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In Christian love, I have to share something with you.
You were a goofy looking kid.
Is that a yarmulke on your head.
I love the concept that the Word of God is for the whole world. It transcends culture, and applies to everyone regardless of theior place in history. There is no one who cannot be change by it, and no who can truly live without it.
The world is indeed smaller.
This is your Senior Picture isn’t it? I seem to remember that it was.
Dude, how did you start out from the womb looking just like your dad and end up looking…well, like you do?
If you get a chance, I recommend extensive traveling, or better yet, living, abroad as much as you can. It changes your perspective so profoundly that you hardly recognize yourself when you return. Changes through age or moving from one state to another are minute by comparison and you realize how many beliefs and views, once held dearly, are simply arbitrary and/or myopic.
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