So last Thursday we rebelled against the norm, and noise, and trekked across campus to a new location. As we were walking, Dr. Abernathy, who had no idea what we were doing, tried to get us to return to the Library. It made me think about peer pressure, which may or may not have anything to do with Bonhoeffer, but fits in my mind. At the moment I’m still not sure who the peer pressure came from, Dr. Abernathy or Dr. Schuler, who insists he was liberating the class. But I do know that Bonhoeffer had to have received a lot of pressure not to return to Germany. But he did it anyway, he stood strong.
As Christians, this is something we have to do. There is a lot of outside pressure to conform to what is easy and normal, but we can’t. We have to hold fast to what is written in God’s word. We have to be the 1%, not the 99%. If we’re the 99%, we’re taking the easy way out, even though I’m sure any “Occupy Wall Street” protestors would argue that the 1% has it easier. As the 1% we have to walk the straight and narrow path. Following this path isn’t as easy as it seems, especially during those times when everything seems to be going wrong, when we’re seemingly going straight uphill. It would be easier to take the wide path that slopes gently up and around, but we must take the more difficult route. We have to trust that Christ will guide us through the difficult passages so that we can arrive triumphantly on the other side.
I’m pretty sure I made no sense tonight, but add together being home, a family who doesn’t understand homework, a four year old who potentially has pink eye, and the stress of having to remind them I should not yet be at home, and you get a jumbled mess of thoughts that refused to organize themselves.
Enjoy class tomorrow, and someone please let me know via the Facebook page what we’re reading for Tuesday!
Tantum E Tenebris Receptum Constabit
~Meghan
P.S. I commented on Jamie’s post “Lost in Translation”
I think you made perfect sense, and you're right in a way. In Brit Lit II today we were in a constant struggle to be non-conformist, but I'm sure you will agree that is was pretty ridiculous and ultimately futile. If we are going to straighten our spines and rebel, it must be against ourselves and this world in the name of the True King, because this is really His world and the devil is rebelling against Him by trying to add us to his number. We rebel against his rebellion-just like in class! Oh, and by the way, I'm pretty sure that the 99% is only doing all of this because they want to live as easy as the 1%-they are not as noble as they would like to think they are.
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