I'm Sorry You're Offended

This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox



and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast



Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

Responses to Critiques of the Emerging Church, Part II.V

I just wanted to let you know that I am planning on writing a "Part III" of the Responses to Critiques of the Emerging Church" posts, but I realized I need to do a little more research. The topic for Part III is orthodox theology, which is not something one can simply whip up. Or, at least I can't. Hopefully I'll get to it in the next few weeks.

Lying is Bad

I recently had a bad experience where a group I was a part of was told something we knew to be blatantly false. Total BS, actually. It wasn't a big bad lie and I suppose nobody actually got "hurt" by its telling. But I was completely insulted. Mostly because this person did such a bad job of it ("do they really think I don't know what they're talking about?") and because the higher road would have been so much more tactful. And refreshing.

House M.D. is probably most known for the perpetual phrase, "everybody lies." I had always kind of chuckled with pity at the cynicism (as several of the other characters frequently do), thinking how much life this Thomas was missing out on by slathering everything with distrust. But I'm slowly being converted. Burying an ideal is always a particularly mournful occasion.

Tired

I think this happens to everyone. You say you're gonna blog, you're gonna be good about it and put something up there hopefully every day, but at least every week.

And then a couple of weeks go by and you just haven't had an original thought. Being tired does that, I think. But sunshine helps.