Rethinking Waverly: The Meaning Behind it All by Todd Rutherford

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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 Time: 6:32 PM
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Life is about how we see the world, not how much of the world we see.
In Jon Ensor's Rethinking Waverly: Rediscovering Jesus, Re-Imagining the World, he states, "things don't change because we see something new. Things change when we see the world in a new way."

Ensor acknowledges that there is no clear-cut formula to re-discovering Jesus. However, he alludes to an experience he shares with his brother-in-law and his fianc? to explain this concept of perception and envisioning the world in a different light.

Joining the couple on their house-hunting endeavor, Ensor observed the place his brother and fianc? had selected. He described it as, "Weeds and other forms of plant life that have yet to be scientifically classified met us at the curb. The exterior itself was disappointing, but the interior was where it got ugly. There was an unfriendly smell that greeted us as we entered. The floors were a mess." As he stood smiling and a bit dumbfounded, his brother and fianc? stared admiringly at the house, saying, "What matters isn't what this place is but what it will be."

Jon Ensor compares one's initial perception of the home on Waverly Drive with the way religionteaches us to see the world. Instead of making the world we live in, our home, a better place, we were essentially told to leave it a mess-a "shanty in the jungle"-because "we get to go to a better place when we die, as long as we have our belief system nailed down." Re-discovering Jesus is the fresh scent of hope and love that can be discerned in the vision of his brother and fianc?. Essentially, Ensor suggests that God is inviting the individual to treat him and his world in the same loving and hopeful way as Waverly Drive was perceived by his brother and fianc?. The result will reshape the world and alter what the individual thinks possible.

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