talk of loneliness in quiet voices
I am shy but you can reach me A sermon from the Old Testament We all live with this lie, don’t we? The lie that we’re actually good people. All of us, we think that deep down, what we are is good … Sure , we might goof up from time to time, yes we might fall from grace now and then; but deep down, we all imagine we’re all actually good. We have this illusion that we could just fix these “shortcomings” of our’s with some better ethics or with one more self-help book… All of us, we harbor this thought that we’re actually good folks; and all we need to do is just start acting like it. Now, you’d think a few minutes with the front page would dispel that myth ; yet on it goes, so powerful is our trust in this lie… So let me be the one to bust your bubble today; we’re sinners … And , lest you think you have a leg up on those heathens out there, getting ready to party on a Saturday night or sleeping off their hangover on a Sunday morning; let me b...