Elephant chapter two

It started out pretty chilly going down to the trail this morning, but by the time I got there it had warmed up enough for me to shed my jacket.  It actually was a perfect morning to be out, even though I felt pretty sluggish the first mile or so.  Must have been the quarter pounder with cheese and the rich, gooey piece of brownie we brought home for a late supper last night.  I did wash it all down with skim milk, though, so that should have made a difference. So today it is toeing the line with a turkey burger for dinner piled with veggies, baked sweet potato fries and a whole wheat bun.  Michael loves his burgers anyway he can get them.

So to further discuss the elephant.analogy. If the blind men stay just where they are and only get to know the part of the elephant right in front of them then they will never really get to know what the whole elephant looks like. What a limited view of an elephant, if you only know its tail or its trunk. They would probably think the whole elephant is nothing but tails or trunks.

However, if they all sit down and share what they have learned, then it opens up a whole new understanding about what an elephant looks like and what a wondrous creature it is, too. Different information adds to the elephant understanding, not the same repeated over and over again. The elephant is much more complex than trunks and tails.

Or if one blind man wants to learn all about the elephant he could work his way around the elephant until he arrives back where he started.   Then, if he liked another part better than the part he had known so well he could always go back to that part.  Maybe, after being all around the elephant, he found that he liked the ears better than the trunk.  So he goes back to the ears and remains quite happy there after.

So the more we share what we have learned about God, the more we will know about Him. And the more we explore other aspects of Him, the more we can either be assured of the truth for ourselves or find a new dimension to the truth we always knew, or thought we knew.

Okay, like the cereal commercial used to say, sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I don't.  I guess, contrary to what some may believe about what I have to say here, today I don't.