Random Thoughts, July 28th



 1. If you are concerned with real old Biblical sin than to paraphrase Billy Graham's stump sermon-- every time you point a finger you should recognize that four are pointing back at you. If you aren't implicated in your own discourse then you aren't talking about sin you are talking about vice and it is a real short walk to naming the "other" as an inferior, vicious being. 
2. God's love should be a constant irritant or you aren't paying close enough attention. We actually don't get a free pass to hate anyone. 
3. I don't think it is accidental that the word cat is found in the word catharsis. 
4. I fear that I have too much in common with the Grandmother in a "Good Man is hard to find"

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