June 30, 2003

  • Making Atonement


    Atonement is one of those scary words that is usually uttered with deep echoing timbre by serious people making a serious point.  Iv'e been thinking about atonement from a more light-hearted perspective.  See when you look the word up in, oh, say for instance, the Oxford American Dictionary, you find that it simply means to make up for some error or deficiency.  I may have a positive gift for atonement.  Seriously.  I think if I have a spiritual grace, it may be for the work of atonement. 


    I love to discover that my friends have never done a or b - and then make it my goal in life to give them that experience.  See, they had a deficiency I made up for it - the work of atonement goes on.  Viewed from this perspective, atonement can be downright fun. 


    In fact, by the time we reach adulthood, we all have little deficiencies in one area or another.  Some of us played too hard and we could use the encouragement and motivation to stretch our intellectual wings.  Some of us spent our high school years with our noses firmly buried in books and we need to cut loose a little.  You see where the fun comes in?  Finding ways to fill each other's deficiencies, may be the very best part of friendship. 


    Nothing scary about that at all.  

Comments (19)

  • How right you are!

  • Just goes to show how misleading dictionaries can be (says the English major).

  • Excellet blog. Very copy-worthy!

  • Interesting idea...LOL

  • Hmmm...since you put it that way.  I bet I have some fun attonements that I could do. 

  • *ahem* ::tap-tap::  I've never been a millionaire...so I was wondering...??? 

    This was a very nice idea...very. 

  • So true.  I was once SHOCKED--truly SHOCKED that my friend had NEVER IN HER LIFE seen The Wizard of Oz!  She was in serious need of some atonement

  • and an HUG.

    Thank you, Terri.

  • Dood!! I never would have thought of it like that! I like your way of going about it. ::strokes chin thoughtfully:: Mmmmmmm yesss. . . .

    Thanks for the hugs n stuff at my blog. What you said pretty much sums up my feelings on the whole situation. I think this'll work out for the best though. At least I have to tell myself that to keep me from going crazeh But I guess if I save money by going to school local I can afford to go to grad school out of the country? That's my dream goal anyway.

    Have fun atoning!!

  • The things I would like to atone for (in that context)...  I've come to not worry about any longer.

  • I agree with this very much - my two closest friends and I have a lot of differences.... quite often we find these differences exhilarating (hmmm, I think I spelled that wrong!) because we can learn from eachother.  I have never thought about it as atonement - but I like your description! It has given me a new perspective! Thank you!

  • "I love to discover that my friends have never done a or b - and then make it my goal in life to give them that experience." Sounds to me that this 'atonement' can get you thrown in jail!!!

    HA!

    Sail on... sail on!!!!

  • What a creative way of looking at atonement!  Most people always think of it in a negative way. 

  • Lovely. Words are so flexible, more so than mankind.
    Love and Light
    Mara

  • Now THAT is a cool way to view friends Awesome post

  • The trick is to be able to identify those deficiencies first...too many of us simply can't take that kind of deep, interpersonal honesty.

    I live in hope though :)

  • I wish I only had "little deficiencies"........

  • I had never thought of it in that way before. Interesting idea.

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