and Christian writing is our penchant for finding quick solutions to difficult problems. Everything becomes a simple little Sunday school lesson.
I was reading a woman's blog who was struggling with thoughts of worthlessness in the midst of a stressful project in which she was expected to provide leadership. She wrote one paragraph about the episode and three paragraphs giving a moral sermon about what happened and why and what she had learned.
This wouldn't be bad if I hadn't just read 10 other blogs from Christians with the same tendency for Sunday school pedantry.
It reminds me of when I was a high school junior at a church meeting. One man admitted that he had trouble feeling intimacy with God. "Feeling" was the key word. He was close to God, but didn't feel it all the time.
I was on a spiritual high at the time and told him what I was doing to feel close to God. I still look back in shame at that. This punk 17 year old kid was trying to give spiritual advice to a 40 year old missionary!
Forgive me, Lord, for my spiritual pride! Help me to learn to become incarnate in people's lives, as you were. To lead them by carrying my cross, not by putting another burden on their backs. Pray for me, Jesus, that I would learn to shut my mouth and listen.
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