tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post2413195455558869572..comments2023-09-25T10:35:26.454-04:00Comments on Inscapes: On Loving One's Neighbor as OneselfBeth Impsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-39998109514352924342007-08-08T10:35:00.000-04:002007-08-08T10:35:00.000-04:00Thanks to all for your comments. LuCindy, I would...Thanks to all for your comments. LuCindy, I would love to hear your cautions sometime, here or privately, to help me keep thinking through the issue. Megan and Amy -- good examples! (Amy, you made me laugh -- so typical of the writer type!)<BR/><BR/>Here's a G.K.Chesterton quote a colleague showed me today that seems to apply: "Obviously a suicide is the opposite of a martyr. A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide is a man who cares so little for anything outside him, that he wants to see the last of everything."Beth Impsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-83633810720040171962007-08-06T17:47:00.000-04:002007-08-06T17:47:00.000-04:00Excellent reminder. I read that in Screwtape Lett...Excellent reminder. I read that in Screwtape Letters several times: funny how quickly we forget that which is difficult to put into practice! Often I find myself downplaying my own abilities in order to get affirmation from my husband ("do you really think that's a well written story?" "I didn't really say anything meaningful in Bible study tonight, did I?"). He's always willing to oblige, so I haven't had to confront the feelings of self-loathing as much as egotism (and anybody who doesn't recognize my uncanny abilities as a friend, writer, source of wisdom, wife, housekeeper, babsitter, etc. is obviously too interested in himself!)amelia ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717625290648440561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-46203092713824400672007-08-02T14:30:00.000-04:002007-08-02T14:30:00.000-04:00I have mixed feelings about this. That isn't to s...I have mixed feelings about this. That isn't to say that I don't agree with some of it; I do indeed! Other parts, though, I do not feel comfortable either agreeing or disagreeing with wholeheartedly. A strong cautionary feeling, I guess you could call it.Lucindylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964098413407674122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-91441725831984791752007-08-01T01:43:00.000-04:002007-08-01T01:43:00.000-04:00Amen and amen. The gluttony analogy is excellent. ...Amen and amen. The gluttony analogy is excellent. One example of such was cited in a book about poverty. This book talked about the cost of keeping Gandhi in poverty and what that money could have done to alleviate others' needs; I liked that example. We get in self-deprecating moods that actually keep the focus on US, not on other or on the One who made us for His glory. <BR/>Thanks for reminding...Megan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17135502078433927067noreply@blogger.com