My realization that calling a guy a jerk has so many deeper implications about who I am inside. Our generation has the power to change how we view each other…
…Will we?
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I label people often. Usually I insult their intelligence. Thanks for making a video to help me reflect on that – humor often is the only way other people can shimmy their way far enough into my heart to be “allowed” to have an opinion on my “issues” – I <3 Joy!
Kelly – You have no idea how much I do this too….5 minutes after we finished filming I was doing it again. Unbelievable. But thankfully having just shot this, it brought an awareness to what I was doing, and I stopped. Now I have to stop labeling myself as an idiot…but that’s a whole different video. (-:
Wow! I really liked it! I also get caught up in this and I learn 2 things from this… is it effective and it it helping the situation! NO! Thanks a million for sharing!
you crack me up! i love watching your facial expressions in your videos… so dang funny.
i’m SUCH a name-caller! holy crow… i never really realized how much i revert to that. it’s like i lose all my english and the only words i can come up with to explain my feelings or describe what happened are things like “jerk” (or worse!). lamesauce. you’re right. it’s just like an elementary school bully.
i hate when other people label me, so i need to start paying more attention to the labels i am so quick to throw out there onto others.
Wonderful! Names are empowering, labels are diminishing. Buechner and L’Engle, two of my favorites, as you know, have a lot of thought-provoking and helpful things to say along these lines.
This vid also reminded me of Caroline J Simon’s [The Disciplined Heart]—which I think you’d like a lot by the way—because she echoes von Goethe’s famous line, “If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
Well done, Joy; very well done.
Nora – Thanks for the summary take away–I wish my brain could sum up people’s posts like that!
Alece – Confession: “Jerk” was not the only word I was calling them in my head. This is a family-friendly operation we are running here.
Renea – You, Val, Erin and Jenny have to be the most well read people I know. Can you just send me your book reports? My eyes are tired. But…love the quote. We must believe in people and the goodness of Gods creation…even in our brokenness. We never condone bad behavior, but we honor people simply because they were made in the image of Him.
i agree, but theres a difference between making a mistake & seeming like a jerk which we all do at times vs. doing something so deliberate like throwing trash in someones face. those guys are a**holes.
In the long run, this type of thinking doesn’t help us as human beings. Sure it might make us feel better for a moment to call them that, but I choose to look at the incident of what they did as bad instead of looking at THEM as bad. I don’t always do this perfectly, but it’s my desire as a Christian, to try and the people while disagreeing with their behavior. Christianity is unique in this way. Thus why Christianity is counter cultural.
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Ok, seriously. I just majorly laughed out loud in m,y office. Joy, this can’t be happening. I’m trying to be professional here!
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