A quote from Wally in this Dilbert cartoon:
Freedom is just another word for finding out you’re useless.
I have quite a lot of freedom and free time at the moment, as my Bible translation project winds down. But I’m glad to be finding out not that I am useless, but that God loves me and values me, not for being useful but for being his child. When he has something more for me to do, he will tell me. Until then I will simply wait in his loving arms. Well, things are sometimes easier said that done, but that is my intention.
wasn’t quite sure I caught the connection in the cartoon…to me one of the necessary aspects of healthy relationships is the concept of freedom and responsibility – as limited freedom hinders communication and lack of communication hiders healthy relating to others. Also, to me a sense of freedom (with healthy boundaries) communicates value and respect whereas I would feel a lack of freedom would communicate lack of respect and probably some uselessness.
Brian, don’t take Wally too seriously. I think the point in the cartoon was that if your employer allows your freedom that implies that he thinks you’re useless. Fair enough for an employer making best uses of scarce resources. But God, who has unlimited resources, doesn’t think like that.
Oh I don’t think freedom is another word for finding out you’re useless, but that is rather funny 🙂
With regard to your comment on my blog I thought I’d pop over here and tell you that ‘Bishop’ Reid resigned from the ICCC about ten years ago. Perhaps he was still allowed to use the title ‘Bishop’ just as former US Presidents are forever referred to as Mr President, however his title came with no nasty things like accountability to the Nigerian archbishop or group that made him Bishop.
But thank you for your comment anyway.
Oh and I see you’re a ‘Chelmsfordian.’ So to am I! I don’t live there anymore, but I’m still back and forth to the old town many times. 🙂
Thanks, Simon. I didn’t know that. Well, for people who believe in the apostolic succession, once a bishop, always a bishop. Thus Archbishop Lefebvre remained an archbishop even after he was excommunicated from the RC church and his consecrations are valid, although schismatic. But Reid would no longer have any right to be called “Bishop of England” or “Bishop of Europe” as ICCC might have appointed him.
This does of course invalidate my remarks about Reid’s accountability to ICCC. Perhaps they tried to call him to account earlier and that is why he left.
It’s good to hear from another Chelmsfordian blogger.
I figured it was a question of ‘once a Bishop’ always a bishop. Shame really, but there ya go.