"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost." So begins Dante's Inferno. If I wished my fellow man to find himself standing apprehensively one gloomy dusk before Dante's awful sign, "Leave all hope, ye that enter", I think I would get him a Blackberry, a cell phone, a loptop computer, and a long list of all those who might want to bathe ceaselessly in the drone of his voice, the vacuity of his text messages, and the mindless chatter of his tweets. I myself would gladly take instead the skirl of a hundred bagpipes at my elbow.
It is hard to see how Christian Science could ever get a fair hearing in an age which demands instant gratification, incessant stimulation, and an almost pathological need for diversion. Even some mega-churches have apparently felt the need to juice up their services--heavy on toe-tapping folderol, light on guilt and slumber-inducing homilies--in order to keep their restless flocks from nodding off in the pews or slipping off to greener pastures and bubblier brooks. Christian Science isn't ever going to compete with false attractions, but that seems not to have deterred some from trying to attract attention to Science by forced or wooden attempts to be with it or go hip with the flow. Rather let those who have named the name of Christ be like the poor wise man, [who] by his wisdom delivered the [beseiged] city and be "living stones" ever ready to attract honest seekers for Truth and those possessing chastened and humble hearts.
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Bravo blogger. This is really well done!
Very well done. Right on. Only wish leaders of those mega-churches could read this.
Love it, love it. You do write so well and you choose very timely topics. I found this helpful, and know it will bless many in cyberspace.
Have been checking just about every day, expecting another fine essay from you and wasn't disappointed just now. Really good, and so needed. Thanks for sharing with us.
You are doing such a service to the Field, and I want to say thanks for all you are giving out.
A beautiful final sentence in this excellent blog post. Quite inspiring!
How right you are. As our Leader says in the textbook, the great distance between CS and the worldly person (my words) keeps CS from being popular. Never will be. But we've got it, thank goodness.
Interesting blog post. Not sure I get your title. Why not elaborate in your next posting?
Such original postings you do! A pleasure to tune in to your website. Keep it up...
Much gratitude to you, dear writer for continuing to post such high-level entries. Many of us love you for your faithfulness to our great Cause.
You, sir, are one of the best writers on Christian Science I know of, and I thank you for doing this blog.
Dear Christian,
(And wonderfulChristian Scientist) I hope you realize how much good you are doing for us. There's no telling how many are delving more deeply into CS because of your blogging.
Love to you,
Amen to what was just expressed. You're doing a bang-up job with your website.
This blog of yours is a blessing, that's for sure.
Really well written. You always give me things to take away and think about and for this, I say, much gratitude to you.
Goodmorning, blogger -
As someone else said in their comment, that final wrap-up is very well put. Uplifting to me.
Thanks,
Enjoy seeing what you've been thinking about. Almost always find something worthwhile in your blog posts.
Keep up the good work,
A delight to visit your blog. You do write clearly and this is not always what one finds in Christian Science material. I think people could learn from you by studying your blog posts.
Right on, Christian. You often say what I've been thinking, and I applaud you for having the indedependence and intelligence to say it.
A fresh approach you have here to writing about metaphysical, specifically Christian Science, issues.
I'll be back,
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