{"id":795,"date":"2016-03-10T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/?p=795"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:33:42","slug":"795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/2016\/03\/10\/795\/","title":{"rendered":"My Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Doug Beacham<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I must confess. I am addicted. To. Downton. Abbey. I\u2019ll admit that I didn\u2019t want this to happen. But, as Adam said to God, \u201cThe woman whom Thou gavest me,\u201d insisted that I watch at least one episode. So for the past few seasons Susan and I have faithfully watched the saga of this English aristocratic family on either Sunday night or by recording later in the week.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The popularity of this story line has been amazing. This past weekend I read a news account that Democrats were torn between watching Downton Abbey or the debate between Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders. Which one to record and watch later?<\/p>\n

I suspect that Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all others finally found common ground of concern as we watched with dismay and sadness the trembling hand of Mr. Carson. Or we shared the same sense of honor as Edith courageously told her future mother in law the truth about Marigold.<\/p>\n

I thought it was interesting (spoiler alert) that the series ended in the early morning of January 1st<\/sup>, 1926, with thoughts of hope and peace. They all knew the world was changing around them. What they didn\u2019t know was that less than four years later the world would fall into a global depression with the Wall Street crash of October 1929. They didn\u2019t know that the relative stability of the 1926 Weimar Republic was on the same collision course with Wall Street. \u00a0They thought that World War I had ended all wars. Even Germany was admitted to the League of Nations in 1926. Yet by 1933 Adolf Hitler had become the Chancellor of a re-arming Germany. I wondered if Lady Edith\u2019s publishing business was destroyed in the bombings of London between September 1940 and May 1941.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that sense of a changing world that lies beneath the stories of Downton Abbey. And it\u2019s the same sense that lies beneath the stories of our present time. The difference is in the rapidity and magnitude of change. The Earl of Grantham and his delightfully witty mother, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, found transition hard as change swept them along like debris in a flash flood.<\/p>\n

Several years ago I ran across William Bridges book, \u201cManaging Transitions.\u201d He has written several variations on this under the headings of \u201cMaking Sense of Life\u2019s Changes,\u201d and \u201cEmbracing Life\u2019s Most Difficult Moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bridges observed that \u201cChange\u201d is something that occurs \u201coutside\u201d of us. Usually we cannot control it. But \u201cTransition\u201d is our emotional, psychological, spiritual, and sometimes physical response to change. We can control how we respond since the response originates \u201cin\u201d us.<\/p>\n

He identified three clear stages: 1) Transition begins with the end of something. It is characterized by grief, losing, and letting go. 2) Neutral Zone. The neutral zone begins with anxiety, we know something has ended but we don\u2019t know the future. The neutral zone can lead us to creativity, our part in shaping a new future. 3) Transition ends with a new beginning. There are new opportunities to define ourselves and our situation.<\/p>\n

I want to suggest to us two things. First, like our friends at the close of Downton Abbey, we don\u2019t know what the world will be like over the horizons of time. It could be peaceful; it could be a Neville Chamberlain false peace; it could be war, famine, and heartbreak. It could be all the above.<\/p>\n

But second, Jesus has promised that He will be with us, even to the end of the age. We are not alone. The Holy Spirit knows how to help our letting go, our anxiety, His creativity, and the hope we carry for the future.<\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, about my addiction. I never saw the first season. So I\u2019ll watch it in the coming weeks as I transition away from Downton Abbey.<\/p>\n

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Por Doug Beacham<\/strong><\/p>\r\nDebo confesar. Soy adicto. A. Downton. Abad\u00eda. Admito que yo no quer\u00eda que esto suceda. Pero, como Ad\u00e1n dijo a Dios: \"La mujer que me diste\", insisti\u00f3 en que miro al menos un episodio. As\u00ed que para las \u00faltimas temporadas Susan y yo hemos observado fielmente la saga de esta familia aristocr\u00e1tica Ingl\u00e9s a cada domingo por la noche o por la grabaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s tarde en la semana. \"\"<\/a> La popularidad de esta l\u00ednea de la historia ha sido incre\u00edble. Este fin de semana pasado me ley\u00f3 una cuenta de noticias que los dem\u00f3cratas estaban divididos entre viendo Downton Abbey o el debate entre la secretaria Clinton y el senador Sanders. Cu\u00e1l de ellos para grabar y ver m\u00e1s adelante? Sospecho que los dem\u00f3cratas, republicanos, independientes, y todos los dem\u00e1s finalmente se pusieron de preocupaci\u00f3n ya que ve\u00edamos con consternaci\u00f3n y tristeza la mano temblorosa del se\u00f1or Carson. O compartimos el mismo sentido del honor como Edith coraje le dijo a su futura suegra la verdad sobre Marigold. Me pareci\u00f3 que era interesante (alerta de spoiler) que la serie termin\u00f3 en la madrugada del 1 de enero<\/sup> de 1926, con pensamientos de esperanza y de paz. Todos sab\u00edan que el mundo estaba cambiando a su alrededor. Lo que ellos no sab\u00edan era que menos de cuatro a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, el mundo caer\u00eda en una depresi\u00f3n global con la ca\u00edda de Wall Street en octubre de 1929. Ellos no sab\u00edan que la relativa estabilidad de la Rep\u00fablica de Weimar 1926 estaba en el mismo curso de colisi\u00f3n con Wall Street. Pensaron que la Primera Guerra Mundial hab\u00eda terminado todas las guerras. Incluso Alemania fue admitido en la Sociedad de Naciones en 1926. Sin embargo, en 1933 Adolf Hitler se convirti\u00f3 en el Canciller de una re-armar a Alemania. Me preguntaba si el negocio editorial de Lady Edith fue destruida en los bombardeos de Londres, entre septiembre de 1940 y mayo de 1941. Es ese sentido de un mundo cambiante que se encuentra debajo de las historias de Downton Abbey. Y es el mismo sentido en que se encuentra debajo de las historias de nuestro tiempo presente. La diferencia est\u00e1 en la rapidez y magnitud del cambio. El conde de Grantham y su madre deliciosamente ingenioso, la condesa viuda de Grantham, encontraron transici\u00f3n duro como el cambio a lo largo de los barri\u00f3 como escombros en una inundaci\u00f3n repentina. Hace varios a\u00f1os me encontr\u00e9 con el libro de William Bridges, \"Gesti\u00f3n de Transiciones\". Ha escrito varias variaciones sobre este bajo los t\u00edtulos de \"Making Sense de cambios de la vida\", y \"momentos m\u00e1s dif\u00edciles de abrazar la vida.\" Puentes observaron que el \"cambio\" es algo que ocurre \"fuera\" de nosotros. Por lo general, no podemos controlarlo. Sin embargo, \"Transici\u00f3n\" es nuestra respuesta emocional, psicol\u00f3gico, espiritual, ya veces f\u00edsico para que cambie. Podemos controlar c\u00f3mo respondemos desde el que se origina de respuesta \"en\" nosotros. \u00c9l identific\u00f3 tres etapas claras: 1) La transici\u00f3n comienza con el final de algo. Se caracteriza por el dolor, la p\u00e9rdida, y dejar ir. 2) Zona Neutral. La zona neutral comienza con la ansiedad, sabemos que algo ha terminado, pero no sabemos el futuro. La zona neutral nos puede llevar a la creatividad, nuestra parte en la formaci\u00f3n de un nuevo futuro. 3) La transici\u00f3n termina con un nuevo comienzo. Hay nuevas oportunidades para definir nosotros mismos y nuestra situaci\u00f3n. Quiero sugerir a nosotros dos cosas. En primer lugar, al igual que nuestros amigos en el cierre de Downton Abbey, que no sabemos lo que el mundo ser\u00e1 como en los horizontes de tiempo. Podr\u00eda ser pac\u00edfica; que podr\u00eda ser una falsa paz Neville Chamberlain; que podr\u00eda ser la guerra, el hambre y la angustia. Podr\u00eda ser todo lo anterior. Pero en segundo lugar, Jes\u00fas ha prometido que estar\u00e1 con nosotros, hasta el fin del mundo. No estamos solos. El Esp\u00edritu Santo sabe c\u00f3mo ayudar a nuestra Seguir adelante, nuestra ansiedad, su creatividad, y la esperanza que llevamos en el futuro. Ah, por cierto, de mi adicci\u00f3n. Nunca vi la primera temporada. As\u00ed que voy a ver que en las pr\u00f3ximas semanas como yo transici\u00f3n de Downton Abbey Procedencia de las ilustraciones:. 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