In the on-going pursuit of a Da Vinci Free life (but you have to mention it to get Google time), I have been researching various topics for upcoming projects and have come up with the following conclusion:
If I have to hear about measurable and manageable goals one more time, I'm going to be sick.
I think this may be the downfall of American ingenuity. Americans don't discover and don't innovate any more, because not many things of value come from manageable, measureable goals. Think about it. Schools teach us to set these types of goals, thinking that attaining them will increase our self esteem. Because of the mistaken idea that failure sinks the spirit. But does it? What is really better, to accomplish a mediocre goal, or to fail spectacularly at some impossible task? What ever happened to reaching beyond one's reach, to attempt things unthinkable? A prize just beyond the fingertips, one that demands overreaching, or even the intervention of God Himself?
There are parents around who push their kids to be excellent in all things, but unless the kids are passionate about one of their duties, the parents aren't raising innovators, just nicely trained seals. Even in church, with our manageable measurable "x% of the congregation doing y" goals, I no longer feel the desire to BE better, just the pressure to DO better. Because of course, doing is both manageable and measureable.
Manageable Measurable goals should be banned from the language of God's people, if not the English language. How can we require manageable, measureable results form the people of a decidedly Un-manageable, Immeasureable, God? This makes zero sense, except that as "good" christians, we are supposed to obey, not think. We're supposed to sacrifice the wildness of God for the tameness of duty, passion for balance.
I just can't picture the Father taking His Son to the circus to watch the trained seals. Not matter how many pretty beach balls they can balance.
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