{"id":68,"date":"2010-03-30T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/03\/forgetting-yourself-finding-yourself.html"},"modified":"2010-03-30T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:09:00","slug":"forgetting-yourself-finding-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/03\/forgetting-yourself-finding-yourself.html","title":{"rendered":"Forgetting Yourself, Finding Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m in the home stretch of writing my thesis for Seminary (for those of you who play close attention, I got an extension and it is now due this Saturday. Long story.) on Flannery O’Connor’s Theology of Disability. I’ve learned a lot about theology, disability, and O’Connor, but the unexpected blessing of the past three months of research has been reading O’Connor’s collected letters in The Habit of Being<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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One example for today: <\/div>\n
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“I never completely forget myself except when I am writing <\/div>\n

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and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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When do you completely forget yourself?<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
When are you completely yourself?<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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