Lessons 3-4

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by Yvonne Taylor1 view·Updated Jul 2, 2020
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  1. Hi. This is Avon Taylor, and this is my reflection
  2. on lessons three and four.
  3. Um, I've really got a lot out of this, These
  4. readings and I feel really good about my participation in
  5. the conversations.
  6. I was mawr intentional with my time.
  7. I was more intentional with my time and mapping out
  8. my time, and it allowed me Teoh get to conversations
  9. on slack and in canvas to contribute earlier on.
  10. And we're meaning engagement, more meaningful.
  11. Um ah, lot of what I'm reading.
  12. I guess I'm filtering a lot through my own belief
  13. systems, and it's causing me to reflect a lot on
  14. why I have believed the things that I have about
  15. Christianity. So I'm gonna talk from a personal perspective and
  16. kind of drill into the readings and videos.
  17. But, um, my dad is a, um was a preacher's
  18. kid. His father founded a church, and my gap was
  19. involved in the church.
  20. Um, and then they kind of when I was growing
  21. up and send me on school buses to church.
  22. Um, I never had the kind of connection that he
  23. had, and so mine was much more.
  24. I feel like it was much more surface, and I
  25. critiqued the church a lot, and I saw a lot
  26. to critique.
  27. Um, so I mentioned early on that my feelings about
  28. religion are somewhat negative, Um, and that I wanted to
  29. open my mind, and I feel like the course is
  30. causing me to do that.
  31. Um, the discussions from Dr Jones and and then, um,
  32. uh, Dr Cole were really helpful, because I I saw
  33. Dr Jones is being, um, a very well meaning man
  34. who a man of faith.
  35. But his faith is much more traditional in the way
  36. that that I see, um, a lot of christians of
  37. goodwill. Um, Dr Cole, however, um, his the way he
  38. saw both his religion and his faith and also disability
  39. within it and how it opened up.
  40. His perception of other other people within the church and
  41. the way that he kind of described what the church
  42. is and what his faith is was very attractive to
  43. me. And I was, um I was surprised by that.
  44. I was very moved by it.
  45. Um, and it just was much more philosophical approach.
  46. Um, then I am used to, um, in discussions from
  47. religious leaders Um, and that philosophical approach appealed to me
  48. Has, um I think a lot about the meaning and
  49. the meaning of life, of the meaning of why we're
  50. here. And I honestly don't look to religion as much
  51. when I have those questions that I'm wrestling with.
  52. Um, and I found it very interesting that Dr Cole
  53. does. So that kind of caused me to think.
  54. Well, what is it that I, um Why don't I
  55. look to religion and I think back to something my
  56. father always said, which was that the purpose of life
  57. was not to be happy.
  58. The purpose of life was to be useful, and I
  59. I didn't agree with that, but I didn't also connected
  60. to the way that he saw religion.
  61. He saw his Christianity as rules, rules of how society
  62. works, um, and ways that people get along with each
  63. other within a culture because it gives them a list
  64. in the book of rules.
  65. Um, that is not the way Dr Cole sees his
  66. faith. Um, he sees this faith as a guide post
  67. for meaning.
  68. And, um, that is very interesting to me.
  69. And so meaning was something that I kept looking at
  70. and seeing in our other readings, um, related to the
  71. meaning of disability.
  72. Um, and there were different answers.
  73. Some, like for Dr Cole.
  74. He found meaning and purpose in his disability that gave
  75. him a lens in order to see more and to
  76. embrace more within his community to see other perspectives and
  77. marginalization within his community that spoke to me.
  78. But in the trans crypt reading, one of the things
  79. that that stuck out to me was the author saying,
  80. um, and this is in page page 3 62 Um
  81. um Coalitional Transcript Time of miss fitting must resist this
  82. kind of rehabilitation and capacity its capacity invitation without however,
  83. discounting the pain and suffering of the misfit, refusing to
  84. become inability machine must not entail either dismissing or glorifying
  85. the pain of miss fitting rushing to either a sign
  86. it meaning or refuse it any possibility of meaning.
  87. Instead, we must try to hold open miss fitting as
  88. a space time of potential, but by no means guaranteed
  89. eruption of alter all tear ity into daily life.
  90. Um, for this I turned to liturgical theology and I
  91. just found that really interesting that um, you would see,
  92. I think I lost Where?
  93. Okay, um, that rushing to find meaning Or to, um
  94. ascribe meaning, um according to just frame, um, frame of
  95. thinking and lens.
  96. Um, would not Would not be correct any anymore than
  97. saying there that it is completely meaningless.
  98. Um, it is a potential.
  99. It is.
  100. Um it is constant change and flux and ways of
  101. thinking, Um, about the transcript, body and experience, Um, and
  102. about life, Um, that you can't just a fix something
  103. to you can't just a fixed meaning to it.
  104. Um, and so that has given me a lot to
  105. think about.
  106. Um, because, like, according to that reading, there's a both
  107. and it's both and and neither, um that maybe it
  108. is meaningful.
  109. Maybe it's meaningless.
  110. Um, maybe we don't know.
  111. But there's the potential for meaning, and there's there's the
  112. possibility that it's not there.
  113. It's all encompassing.
  114. And And when I think about it that way, and
  115. I feel like I'm speaking so metaphysically, But when I
  116. think about it that way, that's what a lot of
  117. faith traditions believe it of God, right?
  118. God is everything.
  119. The Alfa and the Omega the beginning in the end
  120. and everything in between.
  121. And, um, this way of thinking about about the both
  122. the medical model and the social model of disability.
  123. Um, it's the potentials for all of that in this
  124. experience of be as a person with disabilities.
  125. Um, and that that is a religious experience.
  126. Um, if I'm not going, it has the potential to
  127. be a religious experience.
  128. It's the connection, right between spirituality and disability.
  129. So it's given me a lot to think about.
  130. Clearly, my mind is still turning, but, um, those air
  131. my thoughts, and I feel I'm really glad that I'm
  132. taking this course.
  133. Thank you.