Ezekiel 33: 1-11 (links validated 7/25/23)
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When Someone Tries to Correct You, Listen
Remember this routine from “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”? A bully offers to buy the hero’s cherished bicycle. Pee-wee says it is not for sale, not even for “a hundred billion million trillion dollars.” “Then you’re crazy,” Francis the bully tells him. Pee-wee responds, “I know you are, but what am I?” “You’re a nerd.” “I know you are, but what am I?” You’re an idiot. “I know you are, but what am I? Soon both are chanting the comeback in chorus. “I know you are, but what am I?” Comedy is funnier the closer it comes to the truth, and some truths are too troubling to come straight at us...
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Common Sense
Rush Limbaugh died last week. When I heard the news, it took me back thirty years. During the Fall of my senior year in high school, I went on a weekend road trip from Orange County to Berkeley to surprise one of my best friends at college. I drove up with his dad. We parked a block from the hippies and unhoused on Telegraph Avenue. When my friend came down from his dorm room, I was hiding in the trunk of the car. His dad handed him the keys to open the trunk. I scared the living tar out of him. I will never forget the look on his face. I will also never forget stopping at In-n-Out Burger three times during our drive up. And I will never forget listening to Rush Limbaugh for three straight hours through the most boring stretch of the 5, plowing past towns like Buttonwillow, Lost Hills and Los Banos. Spanish for “the bathrooms.” Plural and Providential. What we needed for all that bullshit blaring through the speakers...
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Ordinary 23A (2002)
("Many years ago, early in my Catholic Worker/Resistance career, I remember driving down a hill on Indianola Road on the south side of Des Moines heading towards downtown. From the top of the hill, you can see the whole Des Moines skyline. A vision of a nuclear bomb destroying the city came into my mind's eye. It was scary...")Truth Telling
("A woman has twins. Unfortunately due to her financial circumstances she gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named ‘Amal’. The other goes to a family in Spain and they name him ‘Juan’. Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother")