To Respect Onself as a Creature Part 2: Being in Process, Never "Arriving," and the Elusiveness of Closure

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough,
Massachusetts. For more information,
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by Joshua Chestnut


Many of us have difficulty valuing process. Realities like
practice, slow growth,k and development are often (and
understandably) unsatisfying in our culture of rapid download
speeds and instant gratification. I remain unconvinced that this
tendency is good for our humanity, and so, in this lecture, I
want to reconsider process as a part of God's good design for his
creation and then question the concept of "closure" as a
necessary emotional state for beings in process to strive towards
as we navigate our own grief and pain.


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