This is superb. The sane public writer is only sane because they are not examining their private intentions. Ignorance is productivity, but you can’t know the roadkill that accumulates when you drive a bulldozer that prevents you from seeing much of the road in front of you. I loved your point about the intention of inefficiency. As a hardcore Enneagram 3 I naturally see this as wasted opportunity to give God visible glory, but I am slowly learning that I am trying to speak for God, as opposed to in Him, as that Merton quote describes. And yet when I think of the work I have yet to do with regards to kenotic intention, I only know how to frame it through the same type of checklist-y, bulldozer intentionality. You’re a good influence on me—thank you.
Also, this line: “liturgy is where spiritual potentiality meets our intentionality to become actuality.” This is *chef’s kiss*.
This is superb. The sane public writer is only sane because they are not examining their private intentions. Ignorance is productivity, but you can’t know the roadkill that accumulates when you drive a bulldozer that prevents you from seeing much of the road in front of you. I loved your point about the intention of inefficiency. As a hardcore Enneagram 3 I naturally see this as wasted opportunity to give God visible glory, but I am slowly learning that I am trying to speak for God, as opposed to in Him, as that Merton quote describes. And yet when I think of the work I have yet to do with regards to kenotic intention, I only know how to frame it through the same type of checklist-y, bulldozer intentionality. You’re a good influence on me—thank you.
Also, this line: “liturgy is where spiritual potentiality meets our intentionality to become actuality.” This is *chef’s kiss*.