When We Have Crippled Ourselves with Absolutes

photo by Jennifer Upton
 "If you understand it, then it is not God." - St. Augustine
When I was a child, I made messes, as children do.  And, as parents do, mine would ask me to clean my room.  I would begin, not by tidying but by enlarging the current mess.  This perplexed and frustrated my parents, and I in turn would also feel frustrated, because they could not see, could not embrace my process.

When I set about to clean my room, I could not do it in an orderly way, s...