Jonathots Daily Blog
(1982)
Of the two choices provided I do not like either.
It happens to me sometimes.
I’ll go to a dinner and they’ll offer me baked chicken or chef salad, and I run pictures through my mind of the two entrees, and realize that I’m not particularly in the mood for either one.
Yet we live in a society emphatic that we follow a pre-packaged thinking which has been stuffed in a box just for us, rather than allowing individual tastes and ideas to come to the forefront–to see how they would actually fly.
I bring this up because tonight I head off to Lord of Life Lutheran in Portage, Michigan.
I like the name, even though I’ve never been comfortable with the word “lord.” It harkens images of King Arthur and the knights or very religious inclinations towards servitude rather than companionship. But that’s just me being picky.
I am greatly blessed by the fact that it’s Lord of LIFE and not the other two options which are more prevalent in our society: Lord of the Bored and Lord of the Horde.
Sometimes it feels like I’m being pressured to be either religious or to be an atheist. I can join the ranks of those who file in and perch themselves in a pew and snooze through a worship service or I can accept the agenda of a mob that has no sense of history or personal responsibility, but careens down a superhighway at 90 miles per hour, unable to see through the fog.
What makes matters worse is that the bored and the horde are at war, accusing each other of alienation and crimping freedom of expression.
Here’s what I think:
- Don’t talk to me about rights until you’ve dealt with some wrongs.
- And don’t preach against the wrongs when you’re not prepared to give your fellow-humans equal rights.
As you can see, this often causes me to be stuck in the middle between the Lord of the Bored and the Lord of the Horde.
So imagine my delight–tonight I get to go to Lord of Life–what Jesus described as abundant, non-condemning, willing to be creative and having a great sense of good cheer.
Is that what I will find tonight? I’m not sure. But since they’ve encased themselves within this delightful name, I will exhort them to live up to their own standard.
Sometimes the choices are not sufficient to the needs of my heart.
I have no intention of being bored–and I will not join the horde of stupidity simply because they offer an open bar.
Lord of Life — yes, my dear friends, that’s for me.
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