"Everything in excess!" wrote Robert Heinlein as Lazarus Long, the centuries old salty character in a bunch of his sci fi books. "To enjoy the flavor of life, you've got to take big bites. Moderation is for monks."
What would Lazarus Long say about our current sqeamishness with truth? It has become more important to be careful and not rock the boat than it is to speak truth. There is even a quote floating around out there that Archbishop Rowan Williams can't even defend claiming that he said, "Unity is more important than truth."
I can't imagine that. But if what they say is true, that he hates conflict and just wants peace at all costs, then perhaps he did say it.
Unity may be more important than being RIGHT, maybe. Or unity may be more important than having all the answers. But if some wise person has some truth to offer this crazy world, I sure hope she isn't sitting back worrying about whether it will disrupt the unity. In fact, I might be bold enough to say that without truth, our unity is on shaky ground, indeed.
Let's have an excess of truth! Even if we only believe it's our truth. Let's claim it boldly and let the monks make everyone happy. Although Joan Chittister doesn't seem to care whose unity she disrupts. Salut!
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What they said ...
"'We can't all be so fortunate as to minister to lepers, thieves and prostitutes,' [Dad would] say. 'Some of us are called to the much less dramatic task of stirring up the sediment in complacent souls.'" -- Gail Goodwyn in her novel Evensong
"It is when we no longer know where to go that we have come to our true journey. It is when we no longer know what to do that we have come to our true work. The unbaffled mind is the mind not employed. The impeded stream is the stream that sings." --Wendell Barry, Poet
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -- Howard Thurman, author, theologian, clergyman, civil and human rights activist, and educator
"Salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead." --Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church
"It is when we no longer know where to go that we have come to our true journey. It is when we no longer know what to do that we have come to our true work. The unbaffled mind is the mind not employed. The impeded stream is the stream that sings." --Wendell Barry, Poet
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -- Howard Thurman, author, theologian, clergyman, civil and human rights activist, and educator
"Salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead." --Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church
Don't just DO something...!
... STAND there!
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