Thank you, dear smvoice. I’ll think about it between coughing fits.
Gang. Smvoice and others spoke about what I call playing to the gallery. Whether we mean to do so or not, the gallery is watching, even if it’s just one person.
My suspicion is that that one person takes more note of the love and defects of love in our posts than of our excellence in dialectic and rhetoric.
And we my be called to account one day for his or her salvation.
Much as a lot of dispensationalism stirkes me as cockamamie, I would be delighted to hear that some lurker gave himself to Christ because of what a dispensationalist here said.
I hope that at least some of the non-Catholics would be able to put down their disagreements with us long enough to rejoice that somebody came to IHS because of what we said.
Like it or not, we are lights — to be seen from afar and to beckon the wayfarer home. Like it or not, we are salt, called to bring out the richness of taste for him who tastes and sees that the Lord is good.
AND, like it or not, we can be bad shepherds who fatten our egos on the discomfiture of our Lord’s sheep.
So, remember to rejoice, remember to love. God is Joy and Love, and if we do not show joy and love, we do not proclaim Him.
Maybe, since this coming night seems likely to be one of coughing and interrupted sleep,when I wake I will pray that God hold us all in his hand and heart and that we, more and more, show him to one another and to those who lurk.
(Don’t worry, I only write like this when I feel bad, but am not really too sick. God bless you all.)
>>>>>>I hope that at least some of the non-Catholics would be able to put down their disagreements with us long enough to rejoice that somebody came to IHS because of what we said.
That will never happen. But let it be on them.