Liminality...

Huh? For those of you who don't know, liminality is the point of change; you aren't quite what you were—but you're not quite what you are becoming (poor definition, but it gives you the idea). Anyway:

“Liminality is pure potency, where anything can happen, where immoderacy is normal, even normative, and where the elements of culture and society are released from their customary configurations and recombined in bizarre and terrifying imagery”—V. Turner, ‘Myth and Symbol’, in D.L. Sills (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, cited in Earle, Reading Joshua as Christian Scripture, page 37

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Which is why society is always so careful to create rituals for changes—for example, the swearing in of new government officials. It is a liminal situation, so we are very careful to follow the rules, lest some chaos monster get loose.

Think about potential change, and most people get very nervous. Why? Because the liminality of the situation may allow a chaos monster to get in and devour them. It is all about control. It things stay the same, I have the illusion of control. If things change, it is a liminal situation and my normal rituals might not be effective.

Praise God that he is bigger than any liminal situation! I need not fear change because he has already been ahead of me and knows what the future may bring.
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