"On the journey of faith, far I have come, far I must go" - spectacular thoughts and prayers from Grace's reshaping service- see it over at Jonny's blog.
"This is the invitation of God, to move
- from comfort to insecurity
- from what we know to what we have yet to discover
- from what we are good at to what we might fail at
- from safety to a place of risk"
It's the counter side my recent thoughts on Top Ten things that make me happy - the challenge and the comfortable.
Captain Smollet has finally lost it over at Bomana Nights - see here for his twisted fairytales.
Guest Film Reviews for both the Dukes of Hazard ("Cousins. Outlaws. Thrillbillies" with a tag line such as this you know what to expect) and Little Fish are coming soon...
(who said we don't do diversity here?)
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Had a look Jono, interesting take on the concept of liminality, the in between space where we are neither one nor the other, not fixed into category or identity. In postcolonial theory this is has been very important (though Indigenous peoples working to re-establish identity may disagree and be suspicious of academics who do crap on a bit). But I think it can apply to the teenage years, or any moment when we are morphing, changing (painfully, regretfully, from a fixed identity into something more fluid). As a Christian, God casts me into the liminal constantly. Its a cloudy beautiful place to be. The liminal state allows for creation. The creation of something which may link us together because our identities are not fixed into class, race or gender. Its not safe, but its a creative place to be.
For any Post-Co freaks this is from Homi Bhabha who elucidates:
"Liminal space, in-between the designations of identity,
becomes the process of symbolic interaction, the connective
tissue that constructs the difference between upper and lower,
black and white [...] the temporal movement and passage that
it allows, prevents identities at either end of it from settling
into primordial polarities. The interstitial passage between
fixed identifications opens up the possibility of a cultural
hybridity that entertains difference without an assumed or
imposed hierarchy."
Homi Bhabha The Location of Culture (1994: 4)1
Difference, without hierarchy, would that not be peaceful?
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