[Faith-talk] some points about sharing

[semisweetdebby at gmail.com]

Hey Sandra, I always love your cheerful disposition and the way you articulate things. I'm trying my best to catch up with emails, and so I'm behind, but working on it. So don't worry, some of us are slow just because we are.

A couple weeks ago I met a Mormon woman. Right from the start, ene agreed that we would not try to convert each other. It was hard for her to do that, but she agreed that she would answer any questions that I had, but not try to convert me. We did talk about a few things, but mostly we just tabbked about life, events that had happened in our lives, and we laughed and laughed about funny things that occurred to both of us. It was a nice afternoon in a day that for her would have been really boring had she decided that if I wasn't open to conversion she wouldn't have talked to me. I had my book, so I would have just read but it was a much richer afternoon for me, too. We may go for walks together later when the weather cools off a bit. I guess it's supposed to be 100 here on Friday. Ugh! Anyway, I just wanted to share that it is possible to have great conversations with people and even learn from them. Thanks for the great conversations that we have had on this list.    Debby
On Jun 29, 2017 9:03 AM, Sandra Streeter via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> First, to Brandon and others, I join in the apologies for being rather egocentric about matters of faith, though I try so hard not to be. But, a question (rhetorical) for those of us who’ve been guilty: If we spend all our time in insulated little “Christian boxes,” are we not missing out on the rich sharing that can happen when we include those who don’t necessarily see eye to eye with us? Maybe it’s my nearly-UCC background, but I’ve never been one of those Protestants who are anti-Catholic, and have had a real problem with the views those who hold a much harder line. I also believe there can be little nuggets to give us insight, from faiths that are not even Christian. Even St. Paul used the secular or pagan references of his day as a jumping-off point, whenever he reached out to those who were believers-to-be.
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> As to dropping the subject—I’m with those who know that it does take time to heal, and someone like me could have held back while they were taking all the previous posts in, and are only just now organizing their thoughts enough to enter into the discussion. Aspergers offers many challenges to me, in this vein—I’m often still getting my stuff together when the conversation has moved to other things. And, since there’s a subset of blind folks who have Aspergers, we need to consider that when deciding whether or not to move on—that, in itself, is even a part of the communities-of-faith div.’s mission.
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> Okay, ‘nuff said. I have to finish messages before going out to coffee with my pastor, but hope everyone’s day is shaping up to be a blessed one.
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> Tootles,
> Sandra
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