I may have to cut back on my posts. The neighbors are asking my wife if I've moved out from not seeing me. I'm starting to talk to the newspaper, and the television is jealous. I'm making up jokes. Here's one: An Eskimo is fishing for Walleye on Lake Erie. A school of noisy Muskie swim by stirring the water and the Eskimo jumps up and yells "Hush you Muskies, Hush!" Here's another one for the Blondie comic strip. Dagwood is driving to work with three friends. They enter a tunnel and one starts screaming. Dagwood says "It's alright, he has Carpool Tunnel Syndrome." When I sign my name to a retail credit card purchase, I look for the spell check and publish buttons. I have daydreams where they ask me to write op-ed pieces for the Washington Post, the problem is I don't want to live in D. C..
I have two recurring nightmares. One is where I add a counter and no one has ever stopped by. The other is where I look at my 100 posts and it is one sentence over and over again "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." So, you see my problem. More seriously, there is a lot of criticism by "theologically conservative Christians", towards whom they see only as "politically conservative Christians." They deride Christians entering into culture wars. They present a good argument but invariably have few answers of their own to give. Consider two men rowing across a lake. They are halfway across and the boat springs a leak. The one man starts bailing and the rower says "Your crazy bailing. This boat will need a whole new hull. " The one bailing responds "Just keep rowing while I bail and we just might get to the other side and save this boat." There is, what I perceive to be, a serious problem that inhabits many very good people. They won't attempt something because they may make a mistake and subject themselves to the resulting criticism. There is a touch of idolatry here, protecting the revered reputation. On the other hand, our mistakes reflect upon our belief. I'm a part of both of these groups. The first is more important, the second is, at the very least, a personal right. We need to both row and bail.
I have two recurring nightmares. One is where I add a counter and no one has ever stopped by. The other is where I look at my 100 posts and it is one sentence over and over again "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." So, you see my problem. More seriously, there is a lot of criticism by "theologically conservative Christians", towards whom they see only as "politically conservative Christians." They deride Christians entering into culture wars. They present a good argument but invariably have few answers of their own to give. Consider two men rowing across a lake. They are halfway across and the boat springs a leak. The one man starts bailing and the rower says "Your crazy bailing. This boat will need a whole new hull. " The one bailing responds "Just keep rowing while I bail and we just might get to the other side and save this boat." There is, what I perceive to be, a serious problem that inhabits many very good people. They won't attempt something because they may make a mistake and subject themselves to the resulting criticism. There is a touch of idolatry here, protecting the revered reputation. On the other hand, our mistakes reflect upon our belief. I'm a part of both of these groups. The first is more important, the second is, at the very least, a personal right. We need to both row and bail.
