April 29

Update

I have been so scattered in my disciplines that I have not been writing in my blog.  I am still reading a chapter a week of Luke-Acts though I did get behind.  I am trying to get caught up.  In doing so I will try to write insights that strike in my readings. So stay tuned.

I did want to write about some rambling thoughts that I have had.  It is the time of political mayhem.  I sometimes wonder if those who are running for office really want to be elected or do they just want to criticize one another and those who were duly elected into office.  I am amazed of the energy they spend putting each other down and how they avoid speaking to what they stand for and will attempt to do. Personally I would rather if someone is going to be critical that they offer up an alternative solution to what they object.  Occasionally, I have seen some of that but mostly not.  I guess that it is easier to say nothing of substance so that they will not have to be held to promises.  I should know better as those even I have supported in the past fail to follow through with what they said they were going to try to accomplish.

While I am rolling along, there is another thing that causes me to pause.  That is those who post quotes on Facebook.  The quotes are often good especially if one is quoting some famous person or family therapist.  Somehow that is less impressive to me than does the person quoting someone else actually are changed by what they have put there. When I was a therapist in the mental health center, I would often have clients who would develop insight to what they were experiencing.  My comment to them was knowledge is maybe the start but if this doesn’t lead to some sort life change, it is useless.  I would rather see someone choose to behave differently than someone who can quote the latest self-help book or even the Bible.  We are called to be transformed not just in our knowledge but to live that out in the world.

I know that I will not influence those who continue to put out those quotes and not saying that they should not share.  I pray that what they put out is what they are willing to do in their lives.  By the way, I include myself.  As I said in a recent sermon, how we act toward others and toward God tells more about our true beliefs than our words.