In his book,
Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman interprets the life of Jesus as a story about how to survive and thrive as an oppressed person. I'm taking a course specifically focused on Thurman, taught by
the remarkable Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake. Last week he said something that has had me thinking a lot about my own ministry and work in the world.
Dorsey was talking about the idea that it is easy to deceive ourselves, to stray from the path of our heart and soul with the compromises of success.
We rationalize:
I will just take this job (this raise, this promotion) but only to
gain the power or money I need to do the good work I plan to do.
We compromise and slowly drift away until we no longer remember who what our values were. This is one of the things Thurman is talking about in this book.
