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February 17, 2009 · 8:28 pm

Another annoying call

It seems as if telemarketers have decided that since we are not at home during the day, they will call us after 8 at night.    I am just a bit tired of answering their calls.  Tonight was a new one – for me anyway.  The Canadian We Don’t Do Drugs Society.

I’m sure it is a worthy cause among the many hundreds of other worthy causes that have called us this year.  I just do not have a clue who they really are.

And I am tired by this time of the evening and they just disturbed me from something I would rather be doing.  They never, never, never pronounce our last name right.  Just one other little irritating factor.

So, sorry, Mr Caller.  I’m sure it is not really your fault.  You are trying to make some kind of a living by bothering people like me and I feel for your situation but please, please stop calling.

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January 30, 2009 · 6:56 am

Things learned

Maybe the best thing about ranting on a blog is that, in the responses, one begins to see that the issue that caused the rant is one that raises the passions because it is one that we also struggle with.

If I rant about how others express love so imperfectly, it is because I also am imperfect and I fight against that.

A rant is a bit like shouting at God.  But when we are finished and we begin to listen again, we hear him in new ways, mostly showing us that the rant reflects our own need for his grace.

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January 28, 2009 · 7:14 pm

I can’t help it

Maybe I should not write a post when I am upset. I think I am most likely to rant.  I need to rant.

I hate protocols and precedents. It seems to me that they kill spontaneity. They squelch a response to God’s spirit moving; calling us to act. They kill love and all the flexibility and responsiveness that a loving relationship needs to grow and flourish as part of God’s great gift of creativity.

Protocols seems to me the way an organization responds. But a community, a family and a living body, when it is forced to adapt to hard and fast rules becomes dysfunctional, I think. So is the church the body, living and responsive, or is it set and hardened within sets of rules?

When we give protocols and policies a higher place than the practice of love we are not practicing the faith Jesus taught us. It was one of his big struggles as he walked among a land full of religious leaders who had forgotten the real meaning of God’s law.

In Matthew 23: 23 and 24 Jesus said, “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!

There, now I feel slightly better.

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