About You E-Book

Dick Staub

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 248

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Beschreibung

In About You, Dick Staub addresses irreligious, religious, spiritual seekers and all kinds of Christians and shows us that Jesus came to satisfy our universal longing for a fully human life, not to establish a narrow us versus them religion. In short, Jesus didn't come to make us Christian; Jesus came to make us fully human. In a fresh exploration of the ancient Biblical stories of creation, fall and redemption, Staub explains that salvation is not about going to heaven when we die; it is about a full and abundant life now. In practical, down-to-earth, language, About You deals with this concept on three levels: anthropologically (our common story and universal human needs), theologically (God’s awareness and response to our needs), and practically (how we can attain and maintain a more complete and satisfying life).

Staub's previous book (The Culturally Savvy Christian) was selected by Kirkus Reviews for their 2007 Religion and Spirituality edition. This new book is designed to help those who are seeking a way to integrate both a fully alive spirituality and a fully alive humanity—a way that is embodied in the often-misunderstood life and teaching of Jesus Christ. This groundbreaking book illuminates the path towards becoming the best version of yourself.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Praise

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

preface: our shared story

Remembering the Way We Were

Reflecting on Our Diminishment

Rediscovering Fully Human

Revealing the Way to Restoration

Acknowledgments

I - human potential and our universal dilemma

Chapter 1 - you are a masterpiece

A Few Lessons I’ve Learned

About You

II - primal humans

Chapter 2 - created

You Are Created by God—an Essential and Empowering Truth

An Embattled Truth

A Revealed Truth

A Reasonable Truth

Chapter 3 - in god’s image

Imago Dei: You Are a Snapshot of God

About You and Your Godlike Aptitudes

Only One You

Chapter 4 - together

A Companionship Rooted in the Nature of God

Collaboration

Together

Chapter 5 - our ancestral homeland

Life

Liberty

Happiness

III - the human problem

Chapter 6 - fallen, broken, and sick unto death

The Fall

A Sickness unto Death

Chapter 7 - alone in a hostile land

To Be Human Again—at a Glance

A Whole Person

IV - your path to fully human

Chapter 8 - coming to your senses

Chapter 9 - returning

God in Search of Humans

Seeking But Not Finding God

Finding God

Aglow with God

Chapter 10 - awaking from the dead

V - progressing to fully human

Chapter 11 - the humanizing jesus

How Is Jesus the Great Humanizer?

The Beginning of a New Kind of Human Race

Chapter 12 - restoring

A Whole New Person

Take the Leap

Chapter 13 - your design, your destiny

Your Unique Design Is Good

You Can Discover Your Design

Become the Masterpiece You Are Meant to Be

Chapter 14 - and in the end, a beginning

Start Now

Remember Your Creator

Know, Express, and Be True to Yourself

Become Who You Can Become Within the Boundaries of Your Reality

Make It Good—Aim High

Engage Holistically

Go Deep

Grow Each Day in Each Way

Don’t Give Up

Serve

Collaborate

Recognize This as a Fallen World That Needs Healing and Salvation

Aim for Heaven

Remember: The Best Is Yet to Come

afterword: a creed for the fully human

notes

the author

more praise for about you

“Dick Staub offers a cup of cold, clear water for all of those who thirst for something significant beyond the oft-superficial and bankrupt materialism of the prevailing culture.”

—Jeff Johnson, singer and songwriter, Windham Hill/Ark Music

“About You is a profound, capacious research into what we humans might both be and become as we find, focus and follow the intentionality of The Great Artist.”

—Nigel Goodwin,United Kingdom based actor and international arts advocate

“Dick Staub is a thoughtful, creative and insightful thinker, who journeys into the deep questions of life. About You is a treasure map, where Dick serves as both sage and guide, gently leading us to a broader understanding of our own humanity, its source and the fullness therein. A must read for fellow sojourners on the road to becoming fully human.”

—John Priddy, CEO, Priddy Brothers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Staub, Dick, date.

About you : fully human, fully alive / Dick Staub.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-470-48164-6 (hardback); 978-0-470-90890-7 (ebk); 978-0-470-90891-4 (ebk); 978-047-0-90893-8 (ebk)

1. Theological anthropology—Christianity. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title.

BT701.3.S73 2010

233—dc22

2010013822

HB Printing

First and foremost to my wife, Kathy, and also to my children, Joshua, Jessica, Heidi, and Molly. Each in their own way has patiently witnessed and endured my faltering, stumbling, and often pathetic crawl toward understanding and embodying what it means to become fully alive and fully human. They are my teachers and friends for the journey and though I am a slow learner, they have consistently offered their kindness, forgiveness, and grace. Our family has learned that when it is all said and done, it all comes down to love, just as Jesus said.

preface: our shared story

I recently saw a T-shirt that read: “Born for greatness but biding my time.” We laugh but instantly know what it means: most of us aren’t living up to our fullest potential. Would you like to make sense of your life? Do you want to achieve your potential greatness? There is a unifying human story that makes sense of your personal story, one in which the details of our stories differ greatly, but the collective themes are common. C. S. Lewis described this story as the one true myth. About You picks up the threads of our shared story and weaves them progressively toward rediscovering what it means to be fully alive and fully human and then reveals the way to get there.

Remembering the Way We Were

In About You we will reflect on our collective memory of an earlier, better time and place. All of us experience human longing; we are wistful about what might have been. We intuitively sense that what we long for is something humans once possessed. It seems to us that there was a better time, a better place, where we experienced a deeper, more satisfying connection to the transcendent, to ourselves, to each other, and to the planet itself. This is one of the most common themes in music, poetry, fiction, and all art: “Once there was a way to get back homeward.”

Reflecting on Our Diminishment

About You explores the dissonance between our memories of the way we were and the reality of the way we are. We yearn to be fully alive and fully human, but the very fact that we yearn for this means it is not an actuality. We want to be more than we are, but are somehow less than we should be. We want rich personal relationships, but sometimes feel isolated and alone. We feel less than fully human, which is another way of saying we have somehow been dehumanized. What went wrong and what can be done about it?

Rediscovering Fully Human

About You offers hope by illuminating the path to becoming fully alive and fully human. As my friend Nigel says, “We are not human doings, or human beings, we are human becomings!” To become fully alive and fully human requires coming to our senses, a returning and waking from the dead. These metaphors hint at a spiritual experience, but it is more than that. Some people live humanly but are lacking spiritually. Others aspire to be spiritual but aren’t winsomely alive and human. We are looking for a way that fully integrates both: being fully alive spiritually and fully human.

Revealing the Way to Restoration

About You builds on the idea that our restoration is birthed at the intersection of anthropology (what is the nature and destiny of humans) and theology (what is the nature of God and what are God’s purposes). Christians believe Jesus is the embodiment of this intersection, because he is described as fully God and fully man and claims to know the way to fully human and fully alive. But About You is not just for Christians, because Jesus came for all people everywhere.

The themes of this book flow from many streams, but there are three significant ones you should watch for, and taken together they lead to conclusions you will not read anywhere else. One answers the question: What can humans do to please God? St. Irenaeus answers saying, “The glory of God is man fully alive.” The second answers the question: What was the mission of Jesus? Hans Rookmaaker answers saying, “Jesus didn’t come to make us Christian; Jesus came to make us fully human.” The third answers the question: What does fully human look like? The answer comes from my own understanding that regardless of nationality, ethnic origin, religion, or creed, each and every person on earth is a bearer of God’s image creatively, spiritually, intelligently, morally, and relationally in ways unique to them.

If you get nothing else from this book, remember these three truths. (1) Being fully alive and fully human is God’s original and continued intention for you; (2) God sent Jesus to rehumanize what has been dehumanized in all humans, including you; (3) God can restore you to your uniquely designed creative, spiritual, intelligent, moral, and relational self.

Come with me and explore the wonder of who you were made to be. See how the sheen of your brilliance can be restored. Discover how your unique design is the secret to finding your calling and destiny. Reach your fullest potential and become the best version of yourself. This book is about you—who you are now, who you want to become, and who you can become.

acknowledgments

The great dreamer of dreams and advocate for perpetual childlikeness, James Matthew Barrie, said,

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.”

Left to my own devices, the life I would have lived would have been markedly different from the one I have actually lived and the book I have written could not have been written.

I want to acknowledge my parents and grandparents for contributing to me the genetic pool in which I swim.

Childhood friends like Jimmy Sellers, Pete Claudius, and Shawn Nolan bumped my trajectory in random ways with unforeseen consequences. My sisters Becky and Ruthy, and my brother Timmy from his wheelchair, altered my course by being who they are and being there.

Among my biggest influences were those hapless souls entrusted with my education, formally and informally, and memorable ones include Mrs. Duff, Mr. Baumann, Don Kenyon, Hugh Humphries, Elizabeth Hough, Russ Marshall, David and Jeanette Scholer, Glenn Barker, Bill Lane, Helmut Koester, Bishop Stephen Neill, John Stott, Martin Marty, Jerry Root, R. A. Harlan, and Rev. Earl Palmer.

My broadcasting career offered a graduate school education as each day I interviewed thoughtful, creative cultural influencers, luminaries, and unknowns. My bookshelves are lined with their contributions to my thinking, as I committed never to interview anyone whose book I had not read. (See sample guest list: http://www.dickstaub.com/display.php?section=About%20The%20Dick%20Staub%20Show.) Fellow sojourners who’ve influenced me along the way include Walt Mueller, Rob Johnston, Craig Detweiler, Mako Fujimura, Greg Wolfe, John Fischer, the Priddy Brothers, Neil Postman, Brennan Manning, and from a distance, C. S. Lewis and Hans Rookmaaker.

Along the way I’ve collected what could either be described as an odd assortment of friends, or an assortment of odd friends, whose presence has been at least entertaining, if not at times enlightening. They include but are not limited to Ray Homan, Dave and Nancy Carlstrom, Bob and Joy Drovdahl, Jack and Vicky Carney, Bob and Cindy Ward, Marty and Marcie O’Donnell, Nigel and Gillie Goodwin, Phill Butler, Ralph Mattson, Art Miller, Paul Ingram, Carlo Nakar, Lori Solyum, Jennie Spohr, everyone in the Kindlings Movement (see http://www.thekindlings.com), and all my friends on Orcas Island, not the least of whom are Grant Myles-Era and Scott Harris.

Special appreciation to Joe and Judy Rehfeld, Jim and Bev Ohlman, Terry and Corrie Moore, and Jack and Cynthia Talley for allowing me to use their getaway places for thinking and writing. Also a special appreciation for Jack and Alex McMillan, Ron and Nancy Nyberg, Jack and Sheri Hoover, and Greg and Kathy Strang for reasons they know all too well.

I love working with Torrey and everybody else at faceoutstudio on my book covers. Thanks again to Julianna, who brought me into the Jossey-Bass fold, and to Sheryl, Alison, Joanne, and so many others from Jossey-Bass for investing time and energy in this book.

I

human potential and our universal dilemma

1

you are a masterpiece

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

—THOREAU

Once upon a time an adolescent asked Mozart how to compose symphonies. Because the lad was so young, Mozart suggested that perhaps he should begin by composing ballads. “But,” the young man objected, “you wrote symphonies when you were only ten years old.” Mozart replied, “But I didn’t have to ask how.”

There are two important lessons in this story. First, Mozart was a genius (which can be defined as one with exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, and music). Second, Mozart was fortunate enough to have discovered his genius, and at a very young age.

But there is a third important lesson here, and this one is about you. Webster’s second definition of genius is “an individual’s natural abilities and capacities.” In this sense, you are a genius! About You explores the origin of your genius and will help you discover your blend of unique talents, capacities, personality, and life experiences so that you can become the absolute best version of yourself.

I have always been intrigued by the powerful notion of individual genius, but the simplistic bromides of positive thinking have turned me off. This book takes the position that there is a factual basis for believing in your inestimable worth: you are created by an infinitely creative God. It also takes seriously the obstacles to achieving your potential and concludes that you cannot achieve it by yourself, but the good news is help is available.

I know, you don’t need another book. It’s not as if there aren’t enough books out there already, sitting lonely and forlorn, stacked high in bedrooms and offices, unread. It’s not as if you have a lot of extra time to read another one, busy as you are with whatever you are busy with: work, a love life, raising kids, watching reruns of Friends or Gilligan’s Island, Tweeting, game playing, movie watching, Facebooking, scrapbooking—any one of which leave little time for book reading.

Even book lovers agree. Ecclesiastes got it right, “Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”

And yet you purchased this slim volume or loaded its electronic version onto your e-reader. Why this book? What made you pick it up, turn it over, read the back cover, carry it to a cashier, or click and order it through an online bookseller?

You don’t need another book but you wanted this one, probably because it is about something that matters to you: you and your desire to live a fuller and more complete life, to become fully human.

You are not alone in your quest. Throughout the centuries, thinking humans, whether mere mortals, philosophers, prophets, or sages, have asked the same universal questions: What is a human being? Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning and significance of human life, and my life specifically?

Most ancient philosophers believed the primary job of the philosopher was to answer the questions: How do people live happy, fulfilling lives and how can they be good persons? There has been no shortage of verbiage on these matters: Know thyself. To thine own self be true. The unexamined life is not worth living. The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.

Experiencing a satisfying life requires answering these questions for yourself, and consciously or not from the very beginning you’ve been naturally curious about your place in the world. When you first emerged from your mother’s womb, your journey of self-discovery and wonder began.

As a newborn you got in touch with yourself, literally—your fingers and toes, your hunger pangs, your pain, your discomfort. Soon your eyes became a portal of discovery to a world beyond yourself and your ears began to capture the exotic, mysterious sounds of others. What is that? Who is that? What have they to do with me? Your crawling turned to walking, your indistinguishable blabber turned to talking, and one day you became the reader of bedtime stories instead of the listener.

The infant became a child, the child became a teen, the teen became an adult and an immense, complex world unfolded before you as the curious explorer who, though but a speck of dust trapped in time, began searching for meaning, wisdom, and maybe even for the eternal, transcendent God.

Your solitary journey commenced with a sense of limitless possibilities and an expansive awareness of your own potential. Soon you were joined by family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances, the media, teachers, and a million other external influences who set about their work of expanding your sense of value and worth or diminishing it, of constructively guiding or derailing you, of clarifying your life’s purpose or diverting you from it.

Perhaps your life has unfolded ideally and just as you planned. But for most of us, life deals some serious blows and detours. Paraphrasing Tolstoy, happy humans are all alike, but every unhappy human is unhappy in his or her own way. You didn’t make the team or you made the team but didn’t play, or you played a lot but on a losing team, or you played on the championship team but still didn’t feel like a winner. You didn’t get cast in the play or you got cast but in a minor role; you weren’t chosen for the select band or choir; you scored too low on the SATs; you weren’t admitted to the college of your choice; your one true love broke your heart, leaving you for another; your parents divorced; you were passed by for the job of your dreams and have languished in lesser work, or you got the job of your dreams and hated it. You finished school or were well into your career before you realized that you didn’t really know what you wanted to be when you grew up!

Privately you’ve written poems or songs that no one will ever hear or drawn sketches or created art no one will ever see. This saddens you because this deeply personal work somehow reflects the essential you, the one longing for expression, hungry to be known. Some folks’ lives roll easily and sometimes yours never seems to roll at all. Life batters and shatters you and one day you wake up fearing you are becoming the person described in Thoreau’s haunting refrain: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

You wonder if you’ve missed your own life the way someone misses a plane. You ask: Has it taken a lifetime or did it happen overnight that I become a hollowed-out version of the person I might have become? “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.—is sure to be noticed.” So said the wistful and wise Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in his masterpiece Sickness Unto Death.

And so I have written this little book to share what I’ve learned about becoming fully human. I’ve studied this question academically, completing graduate studies with a concentration in the humanities (philosophy, the arts, religion), because, after all, the humanities are the study of humans and the culture they create, and that is what I was interested in.

I’ve sought the answers to life’s deepest questions personally, through trial and error, successes and failures. My philosophical quest began in earnest when I was ten years old and my brother Timmy was born with brain damage, leaving him unable to walk, talk, feed, or care for himself. My childlike trust in God unraveled and my questions about the nature and meaning of human existence were born. Did my brother’s life have meaning? What was a fully human life and could he ever live one?

As an adult I’ve traveled to more than fifty countries, listening to and observing the universal, common desires of all humans, seeking to understand how we are alike instead of focusing on the differences that so often divide us.

My career took me into a large corporate, then nonprofit, environment where I rose through the ranks of management only to discover that my work was a good use of my talents, but not the best use.

A Few Lessons I’ve Learned

Perhaps my greatest education in our subject came as a broadcaster where, as a nationally syndicated talk show host, I was afforded a unique vantage point from which to understand people’s hopes, dreams, aspirations, disappointments, sorrows, and frustrations. For fifteen years my daily life consisted of reading five newspapers a day, devouring thirty journals a month, and then identifying and evaluating contemporary trends in light of ancient wisdom. On a show billed as a home for warm hearts, active minds, and hungry souls, during three hours each day I interviewed influential authors and talked with callers about ideas that matter. Although occasionally I heard upbeat answers from callers and guests, more often I heard tales of lives unraveling and hopes gone unfulfilled.

Let me underscore a few themes that I’ve learned.

Most People Can and Should Live Fuller Lives and Will Be Chronically Unhappy If They Don’t

Full means complete in all respects. Applied to humans, living fully means living a complete life as opposed to an incomplete, partial, or compartmentalized life. The ancient Greeks called this complete life arête, a word used to describe the lives of people who had reached their fullest potential. Fame or wealth was not the measure of such a life. Rather these individuals aspired to become well-rounded persons: physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually. The Greeks understood that each individual’s unique capacities—or “genius”—enabled him or her to excel at certain aspects of life over others, but they believed the full life involved the total development of the whole person.

This same thought is captured in the Hebrew word shalom, which is generally translated into English as “peace” but actually refers less to the cessation of war than to wholeness and well-being. To achieve shalom means to arrive at a balanced, healthy, and whole life.

The Greeks and Hebrews assumed that achieving less than a full, complete, and balanced life leaves one with a sense of incompleteness and an acute awareness that something is missing. Does this not describe most contemporary humans?

Many People Have Forgotten the Magnificence of Being Human and Have Little Sense of Their Unique, Extraordinary Potential

We aim for fullness and completeness, but what does it mean to be fully human? What differentiates humans from animals? Even today’s most rigorous materialist would say humans are distinguishable by our intellectual, creative, moral, relational, and even spiritual capacities. Might it be that we today are dissatisfied with our lives because we have lost touch with these basic qualities of humanness itself? Is it possible that the way to a satisfactory and fulfilling life begins with rediscovering the essence of what it means to be human?

Psychologists generally agree that the happy life is the fully integrated life, not the compartmentalized life. They seek to make us well by helping us become emotionally whole, because anything less will result in a feeling of dissatisfaction and a longing for something more. Academics develop the intellect, the religiously devout a spiritual life, athletes the body, artists the creative. What if being human involves all of these together, not the development of one or two in isolation from the others?

Most People Are Not Fully Alive

Most of us exist but are dispirited, indifferent, lacking in passion. This is a global phenomenon.

Sooner or later most humans realize that gone are the days of childhood when they were exuberant, alert, animated, hopeful, full of energy, and vivid and vibrant. Something important is missing, they realize, and they face a choice: give up, or try to fill the empty space. Those who haven’t given up pursue learning, reading the wisdom of the ages, buying self-help books, or taking seminars. They meditate or turn to religion or a spiritual tradition or crawl onto the psychiatrist’s couch. Those who have given up overmedicate, overeat, shop compulsively, drink too much, party too much, or find diversions through senseless entertainments and amusements.

About You

I am striving to become more fully alive and fully human, but this book is about you because I want you to join me in this quest.

Whether you are trying to fill the empty space or have already given up, About You is your invitation to an adventure that combines ancient wisdom and new insights. Together we will see that you have unique and incalculable value and worth; there is a reason you feel loss and longing and there is a path toward becoming fully alive and fully human. There is a grand and noble collective human story of which your life is a part, and your fulfillment and happiness depends on your living your unique story fully. There is within you an “inner Mozart” waiting to come out, and I want to help release it!

One final note as we get started on this journey together. Chaucer said, “A pilgrimage can be a rowdy affair.” Given what I know about people and suspect to be true about you (my readers tend to march to the beat of a different drummer), I say, “Let your rowdy pilgrimage to fully human begin!”

II

primal humans

the collective memory of the way we were

2

created

Talking about cosmology, you can’t help making the connection to religion. In all religions, all cultures, there’s always, “In the beginning.” Either you started from something or you didn’t, right?

—GEORGE SMOOT

Everything I know about becoming fully alive and fully human starts with a simple but profoundly important idea: God created humans and God created us in the image of God so we can enjoy a rich intellectual, creative, relational, moral, and spiritual life. You are not the accidental result of a random, purposeless process but, in fact, were created by a loving, personal God who had you in mind before the beginning of time. This is an essential and reasonable but embattled truth.

I am not a scientist, but I live in a scientific age. I am not a scientist, but I’ve always taken the natural world seriously. As I child I walked down the dirt road in Bly, Oregon, and watched Dayton Hyde observing the migratory pattern of a Sandhill Crane. He later wrote the book Sandy, the Sand Hill Crane. As a nine-year-old I stood under the starry sky and watched Sputnik fly overhead, and a few years later joined an astronomy club that met at Knott’s Berry Farm and began work on a homemade telescope.

As a ten-year-old, inspired by Teddy Roosevelt, I opened my first Natural Wildlife Museum, complete with exhibits including a coyote skull, owl’s wing, bobcat skin, ant farm, and a horned toad lizard live and in captivity. If you paid your five cents you could join the neighborhood kids lined up around the block to gain entrance to this wonder of the world, with all profits used to fund future expeditions into the wild by the renowned adventurer Sir Richard Staub.

In college I sat in front of a small TV screen mesmerized by the crew of Apollo 11 and watched Neil Armstrong step onto the surface of the moon and utter those memorable words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”