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On, Church Idiots! Mush!
Yes, I lifted my title from The Pickles, who lifted their title from me...I just wanted to see how far we could push it!
So...
Church Idiots...
It's a hard subject for me. When I wrote the original "Church Idiot" post, I agonized over it for quite a long time. Well, actually, I sat down and wrote it all out in about 10 minutes...it was good! It was funny! I vented! I felt better!
Then I went to bed.
Then I woke up agonizing over it.
So I raced off to change it early the next morning. I erased it and just left what you see now, a one-liner.
But then there was still something more I wanted to say. So I rewrote it, published it, left it for a few minutes...
And then I erased it again and changed it back to the one-liner.
I've thought about it since then too...
There something I want to say - maybe a bunch of things.
**********
One Thing I Want To Say
Here's one thing I want to say. There are people who are "attention-seekers." Granted, we all need attention, but you know what I'm talking about - real, honest-to-goodness attention seekers. They have a very deep need / insecurity / whatever that causes them to constantly need attention from others. Each of these persons have different reasons, different "woundings" that have led to this behavior - perhaps we all do it to an extent. My point is not to analyze that.
My point is that attention-seekers in the church have learned to "work the system," if you will.
They use that magic word: "GOD"
And they use the sacred channel of PRAYER
To get what they really want - ATTENTION.
How could I be so heartless!?!
But I'm not being heartless - my heart is very much in this!
Do you know what I'm talking about, though? The people who prayer the big, long, dramatic sounding prayers with the most explosive metaphors for God and the nearly sexually explicit descriptions of their longing for him? Do you know? Do you know the feeling of sitting there listening to these people and thinking you would really like to just stop them and shout:
"WHAT IS IT YOU REALLY WANT?!"
But you CAN'T! They're PRAYING! They're talking to GOD!
Let's just get honest - they're abusing a "substance" to get what they want. And we let them. And we encourage them. And we go "mmm" and "amen" and "yes Lord" to whatever fashionable, trendy thing they say.
"Reveal to us our GOOD HEARTS, Lord!" (Thank you John Eldredge) "Mmm"..."Yes, Lord!"
It frustrates me because I feel like these people need help and we're too chicken shit scared to call them on their abusive behavior. It frustrates me because I feel like it makes a mockery out of prayer and out of God.
You think I'm being judgmental? What if I told you my spiritual gift was the discernment of spirits? Would that make this easier to swallow?
Well...call me heartless and say that I'm judgmental. I'm just telling you what I see. And I see people with gaping wounds who are so focused on the good feelings they get from band-aids that they say really, really, REALLY stupid things...
Mmm...amen...yes Lord...
It's one thing to be a fool for Christ - to believe really crazy, insane things like "the least shall be first" and "the greatest among you is the servant." It's a whole nuther thing (southern roots come...OUT!) to be a fool for your addictions.
And that's just one slant on the issue of Church Idiots.
Now I'm going to go lay in pile of poop...don't hate me.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/31/2004 03:49:09 PM | (0) comments
The Backside Of Good Breeding
His name is Boston Glory - and no, this has nothing to do with the World Series. He's a little chestnut colt with a white blaze down his face. He's only two years old and I'm not aware of anything particularly impressive about his breeding, though I admit I haven't looked.
He ran against Roman Ruler in the Norfolk. Roman Ruler is the son of the acclaimed Fusiachi Pegasus and Roman Ruler, like his dad, looks like silk - silk rippling in the wind - when he runs. He runs effortlessly. He doesn't even seem to be breathing hard as he flies past other horses.
The race started this way. Roman Ruler was running in second. Boston Glory was running dead last. Roman Ruler was half a length from the leader, being held tight until the stretch run. Boston Glory ten lengths back and not a horse around. Into the last turn, Corey Nakatoni lets out a notch and Roman Ruler glides past the front running horse, moving like silk, effortlessly and comes into the stretch in front. Boston Glory is let out to run and moving through the last turn, he picks off horses until he enters the stretch in third.
And that's when I notice him.
I didn't pay attention to the little chestnut with the white face in the back of the pack. I wasn't that I dismissed him for running last. One of my favorite three year olds this year was Imperialism, who only ever saw the rear-ends of his competitors, with the exception of the very start of the race and the notable exception of the end of the race, when he'd run by them all.
I didn't pay attention to Boston Glory because I had come to see Roman Ruler. I came to see a horse who had all the markings of a champion. He has the pedigree. He has the connections. He has the stride. He has the speed. He has the endurance. I came to see Roman Ruler.
But I found my champion somewhere else.
I worried about Boston Glory when I first took a good look at him, coming around that turn. I worried that he might bust his chin open on his knees. I don't believe I have ever seen a race horse who ran more like buffalo. I was concerned for the poor jockey as well. He didn't seem to know what would be the best policy - to urge on his horse or to hang on real tight.
And so there it was - Roman Ruler away by four lengths. You'd swear they must have oiled his joints and put shocks on his shoes. Four lengths back, Boston Glory - running with his head cocked sideways, trying to keep his eyes locked on the target in front. His jockey bouncing around...his knees up around his ears...
No.
He didn't catch him.
But I don't think a horse like that ever forgets the backside of good breeding.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/29/2004 01:22:53 AM | (0) comments
Aar, Aar, Aar!
We are the pirates who don’t do anything
We just stay at home and lay around
And if you ask us to do anything
Well just tell you we don’t do anything
But I’ve never been to Cleveland (not true)
And I've never been to Denver (not true)
And I’ve never buried treasure in St. Louie or St. Paul (true)
And I’ve never been to Moscow (true)
And I’ve never been to Tampa (not true)
And I’ve never been to Boston in the fall (TRUE!)
We are the pirates who don’t do anything
We just stay at home and lay around
And if you ask us to do anything
Well just tell you we don’t do anything
And I’ve never hoist the mainstay (not true)
And I’ve never swabbed the poop deck (true)
And I’ve never veer to starboard (not true)
Cause I never sail at all (not true)
And I’ve never walked the gangplank (true - gulp!)
And I’ve never owned a parrot (parrokeet?)
And I’ve never been to Boston in the fall (TRUE!)
Cause were the pirates who don’t do anything
We just stay at home and lay around
And if you ask us to do anything
Well just tell you we don’t do anything
Well i've never plucked a rooster (true)
And I'm not too good at ping ball (true - sniff)
And I’ve never thrown my mashed potatoes
Up against the wall (true, but I'm thinking about it)
And I’ve never kissed a chipmunk (NOT TRUE!)
And I’ve never gotten head lice (ummm...)
And I’ve never been to Boston in the fall (TRUE!)
And I’ve never licked a spark plug (true)
And I’ve never sniffed a stinkbug (true)
And I’ve never painted daises
On a big red rubber ball (true)
And I’ve never bathed in yogurt (umm...)
And I don’t look good in leggings (UNTRUE! How DARE you?!)
And I’ve never been to Boston in the fall! (TRUE!)
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/28/2004 06:29:23 PM | (0) comments
All Churches Have Idiots...
Most churches just gag their idiots and chain them to the pews.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/27/2004 09:37:34 PM | (0) comments
Dear Us,
I've thought about continuing my political expose, but it would take too long and besides, I can't answer all your challenges along the way. I'd have to write a post for every challenge - I'd rather just chat in person...
What I was trying to get to though, was this. I'm sad and frustrated at how evil this election has become. I'm sorry to hear people calling John Kerry the anti-christ. I'm sorry to hear people calling President Bush the anti-christ. Neither is true, and we need to stop - stop being pawns of a political power war.
John Kerry served in the military in a terrible "war" - and he received medals for his bravery. I don't know how - I haven't checked all the stories and something tells me that even if I did, I would hear a million different ones. The point is that the military doesn't hand out medals like dog treats. Maybe Kerry cheated to get every medal, but I doubt that's really what happened.
He also has been a senator for 20 something years. So you say he doesn't show up for many votes? First, I guarantee that the Democrats would NOT stand for any senator, who by absentee-ism let their treasured Democrat sponsored bills fail. He showed up for the ones that had a shot at passing - he came when it counted - or else he wouldn't be a senator. The actually voting is a formality. The votes have been counted and recounted a million times before the day of a vote. Maybe you don't like that - maybe you still think Kerry should have been there - that's fine, you're allowed to think that. But it's not completely unreasonable to conceive of a reality where you choose not to do things that don't make a difference.
I don't know what Kerry thinks or feels. I don't know what Teresa thinks or feels. I don't know what convictions they really have. I don't know what their "faith" means to them. I can see actions. I can hear words. I can look at records. I can guess.
But I will tell you this, when Kerry stood up in the Presidential Debates and made his case - particularly in defense of his "flip-flopping," I was proud him. He did a good job.
He's not the anti-christ.
And I feel a little sorry for him. Do you think he knows that he's just filling in the blank before Hillary? Can he feel the half-hearted support of the Democratic Party? Can he feel it when they sabotage him?
I'm sorry John Kerry. Thank you for your service to us - your people - your country. Thank you for trying. May you know and live the great things of life...for the rest of your life.
And as for the President...let's all say it together, "He's not stupid." He's not. He went to Yale. I don't know how he did it, maybe his daddy paid everyone off, but I hear that Yale doesn't really hand out diplomas like dog treats.
How many of us have a degree from Yale? How many of us have run businesses? How many of us have run the state of Texas?
He was pegged as stupid during the first campaign. He never had that reputation in Texas. Perhaps if you heard me talk, you'd think I was stupid? Perhaps if you heard my dad say something with some passion, you'd think he was stupid? Perhaps if watched the mannerisms of the people that I come from, you'd call us stupid?
And he didn't lie to us about the WMD's. The whole world thought they were there.
And the UN is a dead dog. You know it is. Everything we humans touch - even with the best of intentions - will be corrupted. So you're crying over our long lost allies? The ones who were blocking and dawdling for twelve years while Saddam had his way, you miss them? Would you miss them even more if you knew they were making a BUNCH of money contracting illegally with Iraq?
I'm not saying the US is beyond corruption, I'm not. But Europe sucks too. They do. And they were not being altruistic and clear-thinking when they wouldn't take care of Iraq and Saddam's blatent disregard for the terms of the ceasefire. They were protecting their interests.
And if Bush said "screw you" to Europe, it doesn't equate to "screw human rights!" "screw morality!" "screw peace!" "screw people with brown skin!"
Europe does not equal "The Moral Highground."
So, Mr. President I pray for you. I know you are human. I know you are fallen. I know you will make and have made mistakes. And the weight of mistakes is more than the weight of mine. Your miscalculation can take many lives. Mine can only wound. That is the burden of your position. You say you pray too, and so I give you to God. May the High God truly be your God.
And may you lead well these next four years.
And to us? And to the church? It is time to stop. Stop with the Religious Right and Redeem the Vote. Stop with the angry Left-wing Christians who think everyone who is conservative is stupid.
It is time to STOP being pawns of political power struggles.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/24/2004 01:03:12 PM | (0) comments
When I Blog JAM
When I blog I just start - just a minute - writing. I get an idea and I want to form it well. A lot of - just a minute - times, though, I get interupted. Just a minute. I answer the phones at work, you see, so between almost every line of blogging, there's a phone call that yanks my idea from - just a minute - from the creative birthplace and discards it in the trash. After every call I have to r - just a minute - that was someone asking me a question - dig through the trash and figure out what I was thinking.
Do you think I'm bad for blogging at work? But see, I'm tied to the phone and can't move. So when - just a minute - co-workers - I'm not answering the phone - J.A.M. - then I'm just sitting here, like right now. What can I do with this time? I get other stuff when I can. Anyway, the point is that - JAM - when I write, I'm highly distracted. I'm thinking about getting internet at home, but right now I only have a cell phone, so it's a bit more involved.
So the point - JAM - is that the post "Some of This and That", or whatever it was called, because I don't really want - jam - to give up the little time to go back out and look at the title - I know it doesn't take much - jam - the point is that - jam -WOW - I couldn't understand anything she was saying - so what I was saying...what was I saying...I'm just going to start a new paragraph.
I didn't do a good job on that last post. I made some mistakes - jam - not really mistakes, I just skipped some logic that I did in the middle, and went straight to the conclusion. Except it was a hypothetical conclusion based on the logic that I did in the middle that I left out - jam - and you didn't get to read...whew.
So should I try to fix it? Should I do a fixer-upper post? I don't know, cause I might - jam - go nuts trying to think clearly at work!
Hurry! Publish! Before the phone rings!
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/22/2004 09:03:09 AM | (0) comments
Headless Woman Preaches To Rowdy Prophetic Female Choir!
And here's what it looks like...
Dive In Head First
Title lifted from The Pickles .
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/21/2004 01:57:39 PM | (0) comments
This And That And Then...Some More
So...
What I was suggesting in the last post was this.
First, if you believe in conspiracy theories, then you should have been hollerin' during the Bosnian War. If you weren't, you probably are believing the slander campaign against Bush and not a conspiracy theory.
Second, if you think the Bosnian War was in the interest of the US, then you certainly cannot argue that the Iraq War was not.
Now, on to other versions of this...
If you believe that we should be "policing the world," then you certainly can't have an argument with Iraq War - I mean, he wasn't a really nice guy, you know? Your argument could be that we haven't done enough, but not that we did too much.
BUT...
If you think we should never get involved in wars unless they are within the direct interest of the United States, then I can't imagine how you would argue that it wasn't in our interest when the whole world thought there were WMD's AND (and this is important) 3 million UN resolutions later, nothing was changing. You may make your argument about involving the UN, but I'm sorry, the UN proved itself unable to deal with Saddam. Twelve years later...and how many countries involved in under-the-radar business with a UN sanctioned country. There's money to be made there, so don't rock the boat.
ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT PART of the above (direct US interest) is the concept of the "War on Terror." The first thing that is relatively important to understand is this. The idea of "nation-states" is a very, very, very Western idea. Furthermore, the era of the nation-state is waning here in the West, but I would argue that the day of the nation-state never really dawned in the Arab world. YOU may define yourself by your governing borders, but I would argue (from my limited understanding, of course) that this is not a universal concept.
The War on Terror, whatever it is, is not The War in One Place.
Terror is a mindset. It is a method. It has been employed by many a rebel. It is not new. It does not respect boarders. It does not respect states. It will move where it will and it will use whomever it can.
You cannot leave loose guns lying around. They will be picked up.
Don't believe me? Ask the American Revolutionists. That's how we won our freedom.
Here are things that are accurate, I believe.
1) You don't win wars of terror with large armies. Point? Kerry. (Though Bush claims to understand this.)
2) You don't win wars of terror by ignoring the possibilities. Point? Bush. (Though Kerry claims to understand this.)
3) You win wars of terror based on intelligence. Point? The Massad. (They understand everything, even what hot links are made of.)
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/21/2004 01:41:20 PM | (0) comments
A Tale Of Two Wars
The War On Terror...
Holy Moley! You could write a dissertation - actually many dissertations - actually, no one could ever cover The War On Terror - not all of it. Forget it. Let's go home.
Ok, well going home is boring, so let's stay and talk, even if we don't know what we're saying!
First, I wanna just say STOP. to all the folks talking about Bush lying, and Bush doing it for oil, and Cheney doing it for Halliburton...
Please.
Stop.
Where were you during the Bosnian War? I've got three words for you now -
WAG.
THE.
DOG.
Wag the Dog, folks. If you haven't seen it, go rent it, and think Clinton, Monica and Bosnia. And I don't want to hear anymore "Bush is doing it for oil" unless you were saying "Wag The Dog" in 1998. If you didn't say "Wag the Dog" back then, may I kindly suggest that you might be under the control of the DNC agenda.
I would challenge anyone to show me how the Bosnian War was necessary due to pressing US interest MORE SO than the Iraq War. Go ahead. I wait. (And yes, I'm ready for the UN fight, so bring it.)
Ok, there's more...but I'm going to lunch.
Back later.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/20/2004 01:42:06 PM | (0) comments
Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right...
The first thing you should know is that I absolutely believe that one should never completely agree with anything... Well, ok, you should agree with God.
But, one should never buy all of any, any, any thing. Not a book, not a sermon, not an agenda, not a speech, not a nothin'.
Why?
Because if you find that you believe all of something, you either are victim of brainwashing or you were asleep.
That said, you now know that I don't accept either the right or the left completely. And that is a good thing to know, if we're going to talk politics.
The first thing is this. I want stronger local governments and a weaker national government (with the exceptions of the obvious international dealings, etc). You could say I'm a fan of Ayn Rand at this point. I want more power invested in local governments because I believe it would be more effective and more compassionate and more accountable. For example, welfare handled on a local would be more effective. It's not a check in the mail. It's the money YOU earned that YOU are giving to ME to help me out. Is this also somewhat dangerous? Sure. But I wouldn't blow it all on crack - at least not more than once or twice. And thus, you wouldn't be perpetuating my poverty and addiction.
Furthermore, it could be more compassionate. We can hate all the gays and pass a bunch of Constitutional amendments when it's the federal (or even state) government issue. But when it's YOU doing it to YOUR NEIGHBOR'S SON, then it's just a little more personal.
Ok, so that's what I would prefer, but I would never suggest that it is GOD'S WAY. It is A WAY. It is a way that has some possibilities. ANOTHER WAY that has possibilities is to have a strong national government and to try to figure out a way to stop the abuses that we currently have.
And both systems - all systems - will always have abuses - at least as we see the world now.
BUT, for that reason, I would tend ON THIS ISSUE to lean Republican. They say they're the party of smaller government...yes, I know what you're thinking.
Which is another issue...
A Brief Intermission
Both parties want power. That is their goal. That's just how they're designed. And both parties will try to grow - themselves and the government - in order to obtain more power. So, as far as I'm concerned that makes neither of the "Christian" or the "Party of Smaller Government."
Act II
I'm pro-life. But I really mean that. Like...abortion is not ok, but neither is the death penalty and neither are stupid wars or military excursions.
Pro-life Abortion? Republicans
Pro-life Death Penalty? Democrats
Pro-life Stupid Wars? Good question...
Pro-life Stupid Military Excursions? Good question...
So, I'm neither...and both.
I oppose the Marriage Amendment. Why?
1) Homosexuals already know Christians hate them. Why write down in the Constitution?
2) Marriage ISN'T' between "a man and a woman" - it's between a man and a woman and God and their community. So, I'd be cool with the church taking back the idea of "Holy Matrimony" and I'd be cool with pastors deciding not to do weddings that weren't Holy Matrimony. And I'd be cool with talking about certain living arrangements getting certain benefits with the IRS and insurance companies. But as it is, I see Christians supporting a cultural belief, not a godly belief.
3) I want to federal government to STAY OUT OF IT! Remember? I'm for smaller government - and I MEAN that. Two words - TENTH AMENDMENT - and yes I know some states are voting for man/woman marriage amendments and some states are voting for gay marriages. My hope is that whatever metaphorical blood (and God, I hope that's all it is) is shed, that the blood would be highly visible and highly personal and that the Church would be full of fear and trembling as we work out salvation.
BUT...
The Bush team has made the point that they are trying to avoid allowing judges/justices to MAKE law - which is NOT the job of a judge. Good point, Team Bush. I'd say, let's pass an amendment to fix THAT, and skip the marriage stuff.
So, at the end of this issue, I'm a Democrat.
And then there's the War On Terror...
And that's another post.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/19/2004 10:33:17 PM | (0) comments
Lord Have Mercy
I recently had the opportunity to spend time with teenagers from my church and other churches in the area. We "retreated" - you know, went out to "woods" and slept in cabins with no heat. We listened to really loud worship music and really bad speakers - and some good ones too.
No - I'm sorry, I should clarify - 'speakers' like people. The sound system worked fine. I can tell because my ears are still ringing.
At the end of the weekend, students were encouraged to share their "testimonies" about how this weekend changed their lives, and so the brave little obedient kids lined up and for forty-five minutes, they told us how they experience this weekend.
Their hands tingled.
They were "slain in the Spirit."
They knew that God was going to heal their "father wounds."
And so it went.
Either the kids described how they had a physical response during the sessions of really loud worship music, or they spoke arm-psychology like the best of them.
No one repented.
No one said, "This weekend I saw how far I've fallen from God." No one said, "This weekend I realized that I am a sinner." No one said, "This weekend, I saw the problem of sin and now I begin to understand what Jesus was trying to fix."
Don't tell me that those concepts are too high and too difficult for teenagers. Some of them could have carried on a conversation with Carl Jung (but not with Freud, because we think sexual repression is what God desires of us).
We've robbed our kids of the gift of repentance.
I think what happened is that most of us (folks from my particular denomination) are transplants. We came from other churches. We were dying in the "frozen chosen." We were cowering in fear of hell-fire. We were following all the rules.
And then we found freedom in Christ - we thawed.
And O! How thankful we are!
And we're not going back and we're not going to do that to our kids.
We've reacted. And we've stolen the gift of repentance.
"Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me, a sinner."
Kyre Elieson.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/18/2004 05:28:29 PM | (0) comments
A Nice Long-Sleeve T-Shirt...It's Blue
So I went to this conference. The speaker tolds us that the gift of prophecy was real and that we should ask for it.
Hmm.
How 'bout that?
Here's the problem. I don't know what he's talking about.
Somewhere along the way, this guy decided that prophecy was a christened form of fortune-telling. Prophesy, if we are to believe the speaker, is getting "words of knowledge" about people, dreaming dreams, future telling and the like. It is, according to speaker, "hearing from God but not just like 'my sheep hear my voice,' but more intense, more clear. God begins to show you things about people. And you need to speak that. And sometimes God ask you to do stuff that makes you look stupid."
Look, buddy. I'm not worried about you looking stupid - that's been established. I am concerned that you go around suggesting that you're speaking for God and that God looks stupid.
Request? Please Stop.
Here are two things that never came up in any of the talking he did. He never referred to the Old Testament Prophets who spent ninety percent of their time calling a people to repentance. Secondly, he never mentioned caution. He never once said anything about being cautious because sometimes the source of our dreams is the pepperoni pizza we had at midnight.
Ok, here be the deal - God can tell us anything God wants to tell us. If God wants to tell us the future, I'm cool with that. If God wants to tell me about your occasional pot habit, that's cool too. I know riding with God means you never know where you might end up.
I'm cool with that.
But why did prophecy take on a whole new meaning when it got written in Greek? Why did the meaning change between the Testaments? I've been around other folks who believe this and I've never heard one good answer.
Yes, I've asked.
Here's what I don't get - Paul, student of the Torah and of the great teachings of those who had gone before him, completely changes the meaning of the word "prophecy" from 'repentance preaching' (or something like that) into a New Testament equivalent of fortune-telling? And he never bothers to explain why? Why doesn't he just use the word "fortune-telling" if that's what he really means?
I don't buy.
I think we are losing when we believe that prophecy is "future-telling." Was that part of what the prophets did? Sure - every once in awhile. But let someone stand up and scream...
"STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY DO YOU TRAMPLE THESE LITTLE ONES? WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHY DO YOU LOVE LIES? WHY DO LIES BRING YOU SUCH COMFORT? WHY DO YOU IGNORE THE LAW OF GOD? WHY DO YOU PROSTITUTE YOURSELF TO THE GODS OF CULTURE?"
...they call you a dissenter, a trouble-maker, divisive.
Not that they didn't call prophets all those things.
I wonder if they addressed them as prophets? Sneering, of course, but in ancient times, did they say, "Sure Prophet Elisha...whatever you say, Mr. Prophet Man." Or in the New Testament, "Sure, Little Miss Prophetess...does your daddy Phillip back you on this one too?"
Well, you know, at least they had the title then.
Anyway, I got a nice long-sleeve T-shirt from the weekend...
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/18/2004 04:18:18 PM | (0) comments
Election Day Minus One
This is just a public service announcement...
The elections in Afghanistan occur tomorrow - October 9th. For those of you who don't know, there are 12 people running for "prime minister," including one woman, Karzi, and half a dozen regional rulers (known more popularly as "warlords" - where's the PC police on that one?!).
If you pray, or even if you don't, consider praying for this one. I can't think of anything more effective to do - particularly because I'm stuck over here on this side of the world.
I really hope that good things happen for these people. Please protect the voters - particularly the women. Your Kingdom come. Your will be done in Afghanistan as it is in the place where you've made all things right. Give them what they need to sustain them and help them learn to forgive each other in light of your true forgiveness. Lead them in your good way and deliver them from evil because...
I believe...
I believe...
I believe...
That you have a Kingdom
And that you are Good
And that you are bringing to end these days of death.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/08/2004 08:43:32 AM | (0) comments
Why I Like Tim
Tim - I like Tim and here's why.
The other day I asked him if he had read a certain book on leadership. He said no. And then he said...
"I'm sick of Christian books on leadership. I mean, how many times is the word "leadership" used in the Bible? At least, how many times is it used in a good way? But you'd never know that by looking at Christian books. In fact, if you didn't know any better, you'd think the Bible was a leadership manual. Here's what I'd like to see. A ton of books on "servantship"...how about "Dynamic Servantship" or "How To Serve Like Jesus Did" or "Servants Aren't Born, They're Made"..."
So, that's why I like Tim.
So there.
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/06/2004 05:40:10 PM | (0) comments
What Diane Said...
Diane just took a call from a lady from Hawaii who was upset because her order hadn't arrived. Diane's response? "How can you be grumpy, lady? You live in HAWAII!"
Yes, there are grumpy people, even in paradise. It reminded me of the dwarfs in "The Last Battle" sitting there in Aslan's beautiful land and completely unable to see it...
I guess we all live there...
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/06/2004 05:10:52 PM | (0) comments
Random Things I'm Thinking About
1) Reading bumper stickers on a van the other day - on the left, one sticker says "Who Would Jesus Abort?" To the right of that..."Bush Cheney 2004." Hmm. (!)
2) Following an SUV the other day, the spare tire cover reads "Land Rover" and underneath the words, there is a picture of a beaver. Um, wouldn't that be "River Rover?"
3) I would love to see a Saturday Night Live skit on the VP debate last night. The Cheney guy could sit there and cover his mike while expounding intelligently as the Edwards guy writes furiously and then rips his pen across the paper, making a really loud noise. Next the Edwards guy would tear paper out of his notebook and finally in the end, Edwards would pelt the VP with paperwads, while Cheney continued his muffled political expostion...
4) I feel guilty about not spending more time on my blog.
5) Why do we even have political debates? All it is is spin, spin, spin. The facts are never facts really. I would like to see a debate where one candidate gets to present a worldview - the world as I see it (and here's how I see it) requires this (and here's what it requires). Instead, candidates just take an issue - healthcare - and talk about it like it's completely unrelated to anything else. So that, in one breath, Edwards can complain about "outsourcing jobs" and then turn around and suggest we use Canadian prescription drugs. I actually agree with him, (if he's saying what I think he's saying) but the point is that the set-up of these debates is such that issues show up like little plops...little islands...little unrelated realities. I hate that.
6) I was glad the VP Cheney didn't respond to Edwards' discussion of the marriage ammendment. I felt sad for him and proud of him, all at the same time. He knows that ammendment proposal is ridiculous. He knows that ammendment proposal is Dr. Dobson's creation. Ok, well maybe he doesn't know that, but that's what I think...
7) When I was a little girl, my teachers called me lazy because I didn't find their busy work very interesting. I'm 30 now and I've decided to come to the rescue of that little girl. Back off, you boring teacher! Here's a clue...either TEACH something or let her go play on the playground! And by the way, who's calling who lazy? You're the one sitting on your BUTT passing out stupid crossword puzzles! Plah!!
posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/06/2004 10:07:21 AM | (0) comments
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