02/16/2012

I would just like to say that I am personally very excited abut class tomorrow! I really enjoyed this reading.
There is one thing that really stands out to me. It might not be on track with what was meant to come across, but I really liked it. When the writer is setting up the story, he tells about his brother. He says his brother "wasted his breath on singing, and his strength on helping others." He goes on to say that he had traveled "more wisely" and about the monotony of the highway. He even points out the cracks in the road that he has seen over and over.

The only thing I could think of when I read this was the two sides of a local church. On one side you have the church member that is always at church. They have their same seat they sit in every week and they talk to the same people. They like to know what songs will be sung and what will be preached. They like being comfortable in their predictable lives.
Then you have the other side that wants to break away from this cycle of going through the motions and simply "doing church". They want to, as the reading said, focus their "breath on singing, and [their] strength on helping others".

Thoughts?

"We won't be satisfied with anything ordinary, we won't be satisfied at all."


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