Posting has been sparse this week. I’ve chewed through my entire backlog of postable drafts and so I’m left scrambling.
I did run across this story on obesity though.
The findings appear to be fresh evidence of a phenomenon that health professionals have long suspected: as those around us get fatter, our perceptions of our own size change accordingly.
Everyone lives in their own little world; the things around them become familiar, known… and normal.
From time to time something comes along that shatters our world and forces us to reconsider whether things were really the things we thought they were.
As people, our relationship with God has something of this character. God steps down and smashes our view of normal and acceptable. He tells us that we are not qualified to determine what is right and what is wrong, that we are incapable of determining because we are worldly.
That’s why we can’t always trust ourselves, our feelings, or our experiences.