Choosing the better part...

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
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OKAY...original sin, exhaustian, unfocused, whatever you want to call it...I have been so mega involved with d.s.ing that I have put these things that I have dealt with over the past couple of months here on the back burner to such an extent that I am burning out with not "choosing the better part"...that is, not putting the passion I have for younger adults and all that involves, especially as it involves the emergent conversation, in any place of importance...I am certainly GOING ON to perfection, cause I sure ain't reached it yet! I worked this week, strained by fatigue and procrastination, on an article Dr. Weems asked me to do about emergent and Broadway. Though I don't feel very good about the articulation of it so far, it again got me in touch with what I feel the spirit is calling me to do and be...I did meet Brian McLaren this week at MNU which was good, good to hear him, and see so many folks interested in what he had to say...disheartening there were no more United Methodists there than were there. I am also looking forward to meeting with some of our conference's youngest clergy a week from next Thursday--I'm actually horning in on the bishop's meeting with them, but just can't help myself.