Comments on: approaching hope http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/08/20/approaching-hope/ digging deep, stretching up, reaching out Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Mak http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/08/20/approaching-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-2868 Mak Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:25:01 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/08/20/approaching-hope/#comment-2868 welcome muser :) Carlos, you didn't ramble at all welcome muser :)

Carlos, you didn’t ramble at all

]]> By: Carlos http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/08/20/approaching-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 Carlos Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:09 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/08/20/approaching-hope/#comment-2867 Mak, interesting , very interesting, and I'm glad you're seeing this different paradigm. So my musings come from two angles that I'd like to contribute and I think both of them has a thread on suffering/world problems, which is embedded in your recent two posts.. First, early(70's) in my marriage, to an American from the South may I add, our pastor here in St. Louis, during one of my wife's counseling/mentoring sessions with him, he said, with hesitancy and caution, something about the fact that Americans do no know how to suffer specially like the eastern Europeans. Secondly, my parents were from Bieloruss and left just before the second war and imigrated to Brazil where I was born. Implied in this is that from my paradignm, a troubled world has been an integral part of my family life and mine where most Americans would say/considered we have been exposed/experienced suffering. Maybe wee have, howeverr my pooint is that for those who know me, I have a verry positive outlook to life; is it because the cultural/eastern theological background? I think it has a lot to do with it. And yes, it is safe to say that for americans, to suffer is a big abnormality, which sadly hampers their ability to live life... Sorry, if I rambled... Mak, interesting , very interesting, and I’m glad you’re seeing this different paradigm. So my musings come from two angles that I’d like to contribute and I think both of them has a thread on suffering/world problems, which is embedded in your recent two posts..

First, early(70’s) in my marriage, to an American from the South may I add, our pastor here in St. Louis, during one of my wife’s counseling/mentoring sessions with him, he said, with hesitancy and caution, something about the fact that Americans do no know how to suffer specially like the eastern Europeans.

Secondly, my parents were from Bieloruss and left just before the second war and imigrated to Brazil where I was born. Implied in this is that from my paradignm, a troubled world has been an integral part of my family life and mine where most Americans would say/considered we have been exposed/experienced suffering. Maybe wee have, howeverr my pooint is that for those who know me, I have a verry positive outlook to life; is it because the cultural/eastern theological background? I think it has a lot to do with it.

And yes, it is safe to say that for americans, to suffer is a big abnormality, which sadly hampers their ability to live life…

Sorry, if I rambled…

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