The Texas State Fair is said to be the largest state fair of any state fair across the entire country of the great U.S. of A. around 2004ish, a few friends and I went to this state fair, just for kicks, i think. it was a blast of course, without a doubt. but this book i am currently reading now has caused me to stop and recall and then think about something for a long time...to the point of delaying my reading progress by at least a good hour.
as I walked by this plaza at the fair there was dancing and singing and music, all native american style! it was all cool. but i interpreted the whole "dance" as a form of pagan worship. needless to say, after several moments of watching with honest interest, I walked away, and with probably a small prideful swelling of my own heart, with my "nose slightly struded in the air", thinking that I was walking away from something evil, something that the devil can and has used against me before.
this is something i regret and am painfully shameful of. i dont think this is anything that God has intended. so this book im now reading, thus far, suggests that everything, almost, that I know about worshipping God and pleasing Him and even knowing Him in a tangible/physical manner, is all western european thinking. it is only one shade of color; only one type of lens, so to speak; and one flavor; and most importantly, not necessarily correct.
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