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I started reading a post in my Inbox from one of my Yahoo! groups. I found the message vaguely familiar as if I had read it somewhere before. The thoughts were familiar, the writing articulate, the viewpoint sympathetic with my own and the more I read, the more impressed I became with the writer. I was impressed with the turn of phrase, the command of the language, the ability to succinctly summarize complex ideas with a paucity of pharaseology. I was eager to see who this was who had struck such a harmonic chord within me of the three tones of content, delivery and constuction.

Imagine my surpise when I found my own name at the end of the post.

So.

Am I so shallow that I am impressed with myself? Or am I more articulate than I imagined myself to be? Is my perceived erudition a result of how undiscerning I am in fact or a result of how much more eloquent I am than I previously believed myself to be?

Am I looking clearly in a mirror and not recognizing myself or am I looking through distorted lenses at a parody of an image becuase my vision is actually distorted?

Burns asks for the gift that God would give us to see ourselves as others see us.

Even if we have a momentary glimpse of ourselves, as we would see us if we were some other, it makes no difference. We would - as I did and do - wonder if we really were seeing ourselves. And if we were, does that mean others see us the same way or are we blinded in some way that we can't even see that we can't even see? But what if we did see clearly? How would we know the difference?

Been reading Andrew Careaga's "eMinistry: Connecting with the Net Generation" and have concluded that I'm hopelessly connected. Nothing in this book so far is new, exciting, eye-opening or innovative. I can't believe I am so into Net culture that I can't get aroused by this book. Perhaps Part 3 will wake ue np.

He decries the pomo worldview on pg. 70 as being a threat to Christianity. Has he not read his Schaeffer? What extablisment fundies saw in the 70's and early 80's as a "threat to Christianity" turned into a marvelopus opportunity thanx to FAS and friends. The Willow Creek movement was born of the "threat to Christianity" posed by the Jesus People. So why the worry from postmodernism? It's a mission field.

Andrew, wake up and smell the coffee.

Or go see what pomoxianity is about and see that it may actually be the Ne(x)t Gen's rescue of Christianity.

I shouldn't be doing this so late. I'm a morning person. Blogging after ten pm subjects you, the lowly reader, to all sorts of abuse on my part. Grammatical an typographical errors proliferate post meridian.

Not only that but all my profound thoughts occur when I am well away from the computer which is why you may not see them here.