Owning My Brokenness: Creating an equal playing field.
In my work among the materially poor, it’s easy to attribute my success to my academic degrees, experience and work ethic while minimizing my brokenness and sinfulness. As I seek to care for others, the only way to avoid paternalism and mutually harmful relationships is for me to continually be aware of my own junk, i.e. areas of my life that I can’t seem to fix or get right, areas where I’m helpless and hopeless to change and areas where I need others. It’s here that I’m able to enter into relationships that are marked by mutual indebtedness. Check out this week’s video from When Helping Hurts as this idea is explored. (Make sure you make it to3:30 in the video). Hope this helps you better enter into relationship with neighbors and people in your community who are materially poor.
