Email inboxes

A quick look at my email inbox for the last two days: emails about comments on the blog; a thank you from Lovett Weems for a thank you I sent him about this week's Leading Ideas; two messages from Emergent Village; several messages from Barbara in the office; funeral arrangements for one of my pastors' grandmother; several messages from Kevin, the district lay leader, about a variety of topics relating to district ministry; a note from an old boyfriend (believe it or not there was a time I had one!); a question from a participant at Ministers' School about a quote from J. Wesley's journal I used; and a notice from Trudy in the conference office which gives the final payout on apportionments. Oh yes, and there is a notification from Coldwater Creek that my order is on the way and a variety of notifications about cheap pharmaceuticals and replica watches I could own. And old copies of Net News from the conference office.

What in the world might that tell somebody? It is a bit of a conglomeration of things, really. But most of our email inboxes are like this really. I kinda wonder if its not only our checkbook register, as preachers have told us over the years, that let us know where our real priorities lie. Maybe our inboxes do, too. Hmmm....