the subject is a line taken from the introduction to a german history book, meaning roughly: "Germany? ... I don't know know where to find the land." the author of the book uses this statement to point out the fact that the word for the german nation-state that we look at on a map today and say "that is germany" has the most unusual origins of a name. rather than being the name of a specific set of territories and boundaries that enclose a certain area; the word for the german state comes from the one common language the people speak--deutsch. so it is the land of the people that all speak deutsch. very neat. so, yes, the quote is write accurate in that that person does not know how to find the land because through history the land of the german speaking people has been defined as kleindeutsche by Bismark and as grossdeuthsche by Hitler.
i found that statement interesting and its explaination even more fascinating. i am not a german language or even purely german history student although being a student of the Cold War a lot of the problems could be traced back to german history is an historian was patient enough. yet, i find the quote interesting in that that seems to be my human quest right now -- the search for the truth and answers. those that are Christians would say "trust in God and find the answers." i do. yet, i feel that i am, as a human, searching for the answers to life's most many questions and right now i am searching for the Godly wisdom that comes from the future to point me in the direction that i need to go and also give me wisdom and peace and endurrance and strength to persevere through the stress of being a graduating senior. i feel that at times i have found the answer (in life, not in religion--i mean that as a human i seem to find that answer in reason and logic and yet that conflicts with my faith that God's providence will prevail and God's plan that he knew before the creation of the world will manifest itself and see me through the darkest valley.) i believe that i really, honestly do; yet, humanly i wonder and i try to make sense of it all and figure it out on my own. i know that i can't, so i trust. yet right now the unceratinty of finding where i am going to be after i graduate and also the stress of the friction between my parents and i makes "finding the answer" a little tougher because i want to resolve the tension and the unease that is between us. that is the land which i am not finding right now, the common ground between us and two we don't have a common theological language because they believe (as the Romans did) that i am a barbarian--one who doesn't speak the language or in the realm of faith, have the same beliefs. this conflict tears me apart. i pray that God will use this for his good (as he already has) and that His will will be done (which i know it will).
so again the serious side of me comes out after having a long discussion about this with a friend of mine who he says we see eye to eye. i feel that we do, yet i feel that what is best for me right now is that i pursue my own faith that i have found and that faith is leading me to Covenant and may God bless my journey and my experience there. "to go against conscience is neither right nor safe."
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