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- Eduardo
- Humor is the other side of wisdom. I think when we look at ourselves humorously we get a better glimpse of our humanity, of our fallenness, and of the grace of God. That is why I love humor so much, and that is why in most of my posts humor is seen. Enjoy! Comment! Smile!
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Love your blogs. I watch them everyday. Thanks.
Dagney
Thanks for you kind and faithful witness to what happened on both Wednesday and Thursday. The political steamroller of extremism flattens us all from time to time.
On a totally different note. I went and saw Iron Man tonight. I was a bit of a skeptic before going, but this movie really rocked! Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark. Plus it had great new previews for The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, and Indiana Jones.
Keeping all you good Kansans in my prayers!
I also love your blogs... It is good to see you, Friend!
About your comments on this post, you really got me thinking. The more I think about it, I'm not sure there is really a "third way" on the tough issues like inclusion vs. exclusion of homosexual persons. Follow my line of thinking:
On one "side" (for lack of better terminology, the "liberal" side), it is completely unacceptable for limitation of participation of LGBT persons. Even so, most of us are not expecting our denomination to adopt a "radical" policy that is different, but just want to have our pain and anguish acknowledged by the our denomination. GC failed to do that, so the healing process has yet to begin. If you wonder why you have to talk about these issues every four years, this is precisely the reason.
I do acknowledge that having the denomination adopt a statement like the one that came out of committee on paragraph 161G would open the denomination to varying policies and practices. Now I am fine with that, but my "conservative" brothers and sisters are not. They cannot tolerate any diversity of opinion on this subject, let alone different policies or practices.
It strikes me that this is the dilemma for the "Methodist Middle" of which you are a part. Do you allow for difference of opinion, or do you continue to perpetuate oppressive policies in order to maintain so-called "unity." And is that unity really UNITY? I believe in my heart of hearts that eventually the scales will tilt to allow for difference of opinion on this subject. Until then, I am praying to increase in my love for all of my neighbors, even the ones who detest my LGBT brothers and sisters.
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