The Tripod of Awareness

The first word is the word open. Are we able to be open to all the things that we are sensing, imaging, feeling, thinking, and behaving? And by being open, I'm not talking about simply being open to acting on all theThings that we sense in image and feel. The second O, the second leg of this tripod is that I then want to be observant. Am I able to observe it instead of judge it? We're so quick to condemn so many things. What does it mean to be known in the Christian worldview? What does itmean to be known when we're looking at things from a Christian anthropology? If it means to be human from that perspective