{"id":19628,"date":"2018-10-18T21:25:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=19628"},"modified":"2018-10-18T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:30:07","slug":"its-in-the-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/its-in-the-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s in the Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever heard the phrase, \u201cIt\u2019s in the bones\u201d or that heard that you might feel something \u201cdeep in your bones\u201d? Essentially, it means that when you learn or understand something so deeply that it becomes a part of you. \u201cWhile bones frequently evoke images of death, they also may evoke resilient images of life, vitality, and regeneration\u201d[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In my life, I\u2019ve learned a few truths that I now hold in my bones. The first, is that I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[2]<\/a> God formed my flesh and my bones amidst many trials that started in my mothers womb, and it\u2019s a miracle I am alive. God loves me. It\u2019s in my bones. As a mother, that reality was cemented more so during the pregnancy of each of my two children. I thought often about the tumultuous start I had in the womb and prayed over my children has God was knitting Eli and Boaz together in my own.<\/p>\n

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The second truth I hold in my bones is that I am continually needing to make space for the tension being a leader and being a follower. I believe I was born to lead. It\u2019s in my bones. I come from a family of strong women who exhibited leadership in so many areas of their life, both inside and (mostly) outside the Church. As I look back over my journey, I see many areas where God has uniquely gifted me with leadership. But I\u2019ve also been blessed to be a follower. I\u2019ll be honest, being a follower doesn\u2019t always come easy for me. Submission and followership aren\u2019t words I regularly use in my vocabulary. But I\u2019m practicing to continually submit my leadership to the Lord, and I have found that when I follow more closely, I lead more strongly.<\/p>\n

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This weeks reading helped me understand another truth. I am a learner. It\u2019s in my bones. Rowntree reminded me that deep learning, the kind that settles in your bones, comes by way of developing our understandings of new learnings, and \u201cto get plenty of practice in applying it to whatever situations or problems it is supposed to relate to.\u201d[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

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As I think about what I\u2019m hoping to learn through writing my dissertation, I feel like I might be articulating things that I already know in my bones. I\u2019ve moved beyond the surface learning of faith, vocation, and service, and I\u2019m moving towards voicing my deep learnings. \u201cKnowledge is not a commodity to be picked up ready-made, as if from a supermarket shelf. Instead, you need to be involved in the making of your knowledge.\u201d[4]<\/a> Even as I\u2019ve been working on my annotated bibliography, I\u2019ve realized that the texts I\u2019ve picked have been exactly as Rowntree mentioned. In essence, I\u2019m being \u201cbombarded with new ideas, new perspectives on ideas you already have, new connections between ideas, ideas that conflict with or transform your existing ideas \u2013 together with a whole new vocabulary with which to talk about them.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Folks like Rowntree, Adler, and Bayard have helped me in this season of deep learning. But I know I\u2019m right at the start and it\u2019s all so new. I\u2019m still holding in tension my leadership and my followership in this program. Daily I\u2019m reminding myself that I can do this work because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Honestly, it\u2019s hard to remember these truths at time. It\u2019s all so new; it\u2019s only just begun. But it\u2019s going to be good. I can tell. I feel it in my bones.<\/p>\n

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*Completely unrelated to the content of this post, but these books kicked my butt in the citation department. I hope I did these right. This is why this post is late. I read nearly the entire Turabian Book to figure these out. This Turabian book will hopefully soon be in my bones too.<\/em><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Elaine Lux, \u201cNarrative Bones: Amy Tan\u2019s Bonesetter\u2019s Daughter and Hugh Cook\u2019s Homecoming Man\u201d in The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmoderd World, <\/em>eds. Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006), 119<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Psalm 139:14 (New Revised Standard Version)<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Derek Rowntree, \u201cStudying and Learning,\u201d in Learn How to Study: A Virtual Tour with Derek Rowntree<\/em> (n.p.: printed by the author, 2016)<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> ibid.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Derek Rowntree, \u201cThe art of reading critically (1),\u201d in Learn How to Study: A Virtual Tour with Derek Rowntree<\/em> (n.p.: printed by the author, 2016)<\/p>\n

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