Monday, January 19, 2015
Past sermons, like "What it means to be a man" and "Why we don't get things done"
Back in 1966, when I started graduate school at the
University of Kansas, I sometimes walked down to Massachusetts St. in downtown
Lawrence from “Mt. Oread” (150 feet higher) to “regular” church services on
Sunday mornings.
I found a Presbyterian church where the minister gave
funny sermons, including one “What it means to be a man”, and was willing to
talk about James Bond movies, and about Sean Connery as a male role model for
the times. Really.
There was a Methodist church nearby where the minister
one time gave a sermon, “Why don’t we get things done?” That strikes me as important today. At 71, I don’t have forever to complete my
own path in life, and sometimes I can’t afford distractions, disruptions and
delays. But there’s also the whole problem, we get diverted because we make
little mistakes that at least then keep us on edge (in an OCD sense). We make oversights because we aren’t paying
enough attention to input coming at us until we are ready to listen to it. Maybe it’s easier to pay attention when you
have others to provide for. That’s the
paradox. One could imagine a sermon “The
Mind Your Own Business Society”.
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