conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

turrets on the fortress walls surrounding the old city of rhodes

Once again my friend, Randy, has posted a group of stunning pictures from his vacation. This one is incredible. I hope to be able to travel like he is some day.

Well, it's Friday. The memorial service scheduled for last Thursday was moved to last night. I had a meeting this morning. I have another in an hour and a half. Somewhere in there I need to fit in my sermon preparation. I have a title, but now I am not sure that I can make it work. Titles are such strange beasts. I know that some people find them to be helpful memory aids. I get that. But as the guy coming up with the sermon, the title does not always come in time for the printing of the bulletin. This is one of those weeks. I succumbed to the pressure and just came up with a title for this week's Gospel reading about where we sit at a banquet. It's about humility, you know. So, "The Ladies Who Lunch" might prove to be somewhat humorous. I don't know. I am not sure.

Part of the trouble is that I have a bug up my butt about a class action lawsuit being filed by people inconvenienced by the storm last week. They want to punish the power company. This just makes no sense to me at all. And since the Jeremiah reading is about God suing the Israelites for abandoning the covenant, I have this whole different understanding about legal suits. What about our relationship with God and the humility one might (hopefully) learn within it? Do we think that we have some special place at the banquet table? Is there an entitlement thing at work? Are we simply frustrated and looking for someone to blame?

Stuff happens. Why does it always seem to boil down to blame for some people? I just don't understand this sometimes. I know it's there. People get hurt somehow. They lash out. Real wrongs occur. Yes. But is this one of them? I am not convinced. Hopefully the courts will throw it all out. Urf.

Well, I should get going on this thing. God forgive me for my ire.

Posted by tripp at August 31, 2007 10:40 AM