2006-05-06T08:39:00.001-07:00

Liturgy and Dodgeball.

I started this little day-dream this morning when I was reading and I arrived at a section that dealt with humility. Humility is something we are to shoot for, but not directly. If you run at it head on you end up stoically concluding that you stuck it out. I think our society has taken too many courses on psychology and looks at every one as if they were one of those kids who sucked at dodgeball. I remember so many times in psych. classes actually trying to convince professors that my problem was not that I had suffered abuses from someone else or myself directly or indirectly. If everyone sees themselves as mental patients then liturgy does not work all that well. Every day we are bombarded with little phrases that convince us that we can be what we want to be and that we are what we see ourselves as; in other words, our society tries to convince us that we can be kick-ass dodgeball players if we want. Perhaps part of the problem with getting Christians on board the Good Ship Liturgy is about pride. There just is not a platform for projecting one's self above the community. People who want all this self expression on the Good Ship want to hoist the sail when the captian is dropping the anchor. On the contrary when we participate in good liturgy we get hot rubber balls thrown at us again. A good captain will tell those who are larger targets to "stick with me and watch what I do and don't be afraid to meet the ball", because it always stings, but the key to the game is not dodging at all. The captian does this as a way of indirectly aproaching the problem, which is, that you suck at dodgeball.

lots of casting