Pastor Dan
Fox River Valley QZ
Eastern Wisconsin
I know that everyone down south probably doesn't want to hear this... but I am already getting tired of this heat. We've really needed the rain we've had for the last couple of weeks, but combined with the heat the humidity is just getting ridiculous, and the mud is making Runs more dangerous. Just yesterday I had a bad stumble when I hit a patch of mud. I was just jogging for the sake of moving faster, but if there'd been groaners on me...
Well, then, this blog would have one poster less.
I get more and more reports these days about the different Doomsday cults that are out there, a lot of them Post-Christian. I think the Commandant likes sharing those stories with me... like he's telling me to give up the whole faith thing and just be another runner.
Sometimes, I'm tempted.
It's not a uniquely religious thing... suicide rates have been flat out ugly since the Cameras bled, but darned if we religious folks aren't amazing at making it even scarier. One guy, or one family, deciding they've had enough is one thing. But a whole faith community that was basically safe? Intentional infections? Contaminating public water supplies? This stuff is nuts.
My worst service since we started was Easter. Easter season just ended last week, and it was relief. The dead rising isn't good news anymore. It's a terrifying fact of life.
I've been dodging around the issue but sooner or later I am going to need a theological reason to keep on as I have been. It needs to WORK, because if it doesn't, then I'm just a guy with a good imagination and great blinders.
Still working on that.
Friday, May 29, 2015
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ReplyDeleteGeorgia. Summer. Can't run A/C.
It may be hot to you, but forgive me if I don't have much sympathy. On the worst days so far, the entire QZ has looked like a college concert. People wear only what they have to in order to stay somewhat publicly decent. I don't have the patience to tell them all that they are actually losing water faster and increasing their risk to skin cancer. I just continue to wear button-up work shirts and loose cargo pants, thinking about the baggy robes that the ancient Arabic tribes used to wear...