Eyeglass Theory...
I walked off without my glasses this morning. Why? Carelessness. I looked for them, searched the house (I thought) pretty thoroughly... Didn't see them. I just called Lori and she found them - beside the computer (where I looked at least twice this morning, I swear). Sigh... I can see okay without my glasses - things are kinda blurry, but I can still read - though I'm much slower without my glasses and I'm getting a thundering headache... So things are just a little out of focus - but it's really causing me a little stress and strain. Hmmm - I'm thinking about what happens when we present the Gospel "just a little out of focus" - do people have to work too hard to really see Jesus? I'm going to teach a class on The Shack this month - and there's a few things in the book that I would argue are "a little out of focus" theologically. It's easy for me to say "it's just fiction" - I mean, after all, that gets me throug...