Comments on: In which Driveness & Scarcity Thinking is the Voice of the Oppressor, & the Enemy of the People https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21369 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:59:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21369 In reply to pastordt.

Diana, thank you for your encouragement. 🙂

]]> By: pastordt https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21368 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:57:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21368 Wonderful, Anita. Truly. Thank you so much.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21367 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:38:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21367 In reply to kelli woodford.

Lol! Thank you,Kelli.
I used to call my two girls “Honey Child,” when they were toddlers, and I reckon God sees me the same way 🙂

]]> By: kelli woodford https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21366 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:32:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21366 oh my. this is calling my name.

i have known this driven posture. what you describe as life with bleeding fingertips and hearts and lives. so vivid. so true.

thank you for speaking this truth loud and long and clear. oh, and “Honey Child” – that just about did me in … 🙂

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21365 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:49:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21365 In reply to LA.

Lovely. I love that litany you mention. Hadn’t heard of it before. Will look it up.

I am, sadly, quite driven–came from a family with impossibly high expectations of me. I am learning to pause and try to see where God is leading, and to lead a full and somewhat balanced life rather than give in to my own restless drivenness.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21364 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:42:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21364 In reply to jay_tyson.

Hi Jayne,
Yeah, was just playing with the idea. Of course, drivenness can come from our childhood, environment and fallen human nature as well as from Satan.
It’s just when drivenness leads to the loss of health, and relationship and happiness and peace that one thinks that God had little to do with it, but Satan would delight in it!
Ax

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21363 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:39:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21363 In reply to Don.

Hi Don, That’s what I tell myself when I feel driven on the Sabbath. That if I really believed in the power of prayer, I am still working on my heart’s desires, just in a different way, through the power of prayer rather than sweat!

]]> By: Don https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21362 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:02:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21362 This is what the Sabbath is about: choosing to rest, to accept the idea that trusting God to do what I cannot do means that I can take a break from outward action. Faith and trusting are often the most effective form of action, even if they are only expressed inwardly.

Praying in tongues for an extended time is very difficult for me, as it feels to my impatient self like a waste of time. This just shows how much I am addicted to external stimuli, how difficult it is for me just to sit and soak in God’s presence.

I don’t believe that my chronic foot pain is from God, but on the other hand, I know now that he has worked his kindness through it, inasmuch as I have been drawn to spend more time with him and less time in outward action. I’m more at rest, and I choose every day to trust him to take care of the many things I can’t do and to show me the things I can do.

]]> By: jay_tyson https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21361 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:25:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21361 I love the point you make about driven-ness I’m prone to it! I struggle with the personification of evil as Satan getting the blame for it! I see it as the worst of me. One of the many imperfections I ask Gods grace & healing for everyday!

]]> By: LA https://anitamathias.com/2013/06/19/in-which-driveness-scarcity-thinking-is-the-voice-of-the-oppressor-the-enemy-of-the-people/#comment-21360 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:01:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=46191#comment-21360 Interesting…I rarely if ever feel that way, but I’m not a very driven person, busy, but not too driven. I generally see the list of tasks not getting done more of a function of my flawed time management rather than a desire to have more hours in a day.

There is a great litany in the Seder tradition called Dayenu. Of course, with anything to do with Seder, the exact text varies from Haggadah to Haggadah. But in the one our family uses, it lists all the miracles of God’s redemption in the Moses story and after each is read, we respond with “We would have been grateful and content”…if God’s only act of redemption was to part the waters…we would have been grateful and content…etc…I think it’s a fantastic reminder to us to BE grateful and content with all that God pours out to us.

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