{"id":30521,"date":"2023-01-26T22:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=30521"},"modified":"2023-01-28T20:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T04:39:06","slug":"discombobulation-recombobulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/discombobulation-recombobulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Discombobulation….Recombobulation!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee, WI is known as one\u00a0of the \u201chappier\u201d airports in the USA.\u00a0 Why you ask?\u00a0 Well Barry Bateman \u00a0the former airport director who retired in 2020, Bateman made up the word and suggested the signage in order to add some comic relief to what can be a tense aspect of air travel.\u00a0 This story gave me just that a little comic relief, but it came to mind as I studied the Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge<\/em>by Land and Meyer.\u00a0 Approaching a threshold in learning can be disorienting, or as Land and Meyer state, a state of \u201cdeconstruction\u201d (5), \u201csubversive in that it undermines previous beliefs and leads to troublesome knowledge\u201d (Land and Meyer, 5).\u00a0 When approaching security in an airport, and I don\u2019t care home much you travel, it becomes discombobulating!\u00a0 What are the rules at this airport? Do I need to take my shoes off?\u00a0 Do I put my laptop with my phone?\u00a0 Are my carry-on toiletries small enough? You stop, you go, you get x-rayed, you get patted down, or like in Qatar on my way to South Africa you are placed to the side to let the gentlemen behind you go through first, then you and the women set aside are allowed to go through\u2026.it is discombobulating.\u00a0 What would I not give to have a \u201crecombobulation area?\u00a0 It\u2019s brilliant.\u00a0 The airport acknowledges what their customers are going through is stressful, and they care.\u00a0 They put up a sign with a non-word, to make people smile.\u00a0 According to an article on the website OnMilwaukee.com,<\/em> it works!\u00a0 Mitchell airport reports happier passengers!\u00a0 In Recombobulating\u2026they were given space to sit, to pull themselves together and reflect in the shared experience of having been discombobulated.<\/p>\n

Here is the deal, discombobulation is hard, or in relation to this week, deconstruction is hard and comes with Troublesome knowledge (Land and Meyer, 9).\u00a0 I often refer to my faith journey as a reconstructed Christian.\u00a0 I have had many threshold moments in my faith, far too many to include here, but if you read my blog last week, I pointed out the use of masculine language for God throughout the book.\u00a0 Finding my voice in understanding God as much female as male was a threshold concept for me\u2026and transformative, irreversible\u2026 I can\u2019t unknow it, and Integrative (7).\u00a0 Did I need to point it out?\u00a0 For me, yes, it\u2019s known and I am now as aware of it and I can\u2019t unknow it.\u00a0 I have had a shift in values, feeling and attitude (7).\u00a0 Being in a middle of a threshold concept can most definitely bring troublesome knowledge, and I would say when it comes to core beliefs, it brings an unstable grounding that is terrifying.\u00a0 However, some of the troublesome knowledge mentioned in this week\u2019s readings can help, in my opinion, as we move through this discombobulation.\u00a0 Ritual (10), doing what you have always done, though experienced a bit differently, can be part of the healing process.<\/p>\n

As a Hospice Chaplain, I visit a few individuals nearing end of life in memory care units.\u00a0 They and their families are all discombobulated, but if I find out they have a certain faith tradition, a hymn or communion ritual can bring them solidly into the moment like nothing else.\u00a0 They don\u2019t know themselves anymore, but they can sing a hymn word for word with me or say the Lord\u2019s prayer\u2026Ritual (9).\u00a0 It\u2019s troublesome in that once we experience ritual through a different threshold lens it has in essence changed because of our new understanding, but I believe fully in ritual is not known in the mind and head, it is known in the heart and body.<\/p>\n

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I have also experienced threshold moments starting in college when I took up a Sociology degree.\u00a0 Once I started to learn of other cultures and ways of being, it changed me.\u00a0 The Global Perspectives of this course is what drew me in along with studying leadership, to walk the Labryinth where Bishop Desmond Tutu walked and prayed was humbling. Walking around Langa in Capetown, talking with residents, siting in their huts was threshold and humbling. \u00a0I can\u2019t unexperience this and I am forever grateful. And it brings troublesome knowledge that inequality still exists and is calling for integration in my life. Reading your blogs and reading your responses to my blogs are threshold experiences because I now see some of me reflected in you all and you reflected in me.\u00a0 Perhaps this is the Namaste moments, God in me recognizes and sees God in you and now we are changed by that exchange!\u00a0 What a gift learning is, and I hope to never lose that sense of wonder and awe and new experiences, no matter how discombobulating they are! \u00a0May we all be discombobulated and recombobulated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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