November 26, 2007
Yesterday
Yesterday’s preachment (OoN/23xi07) on the Feast of Christ, the King, and Recovery Sunday, once each at the three celebrations of the Mysteries, came off without incident. Put another way, I didn’t trip and stumble on any of that big, high-steeple church’s marble steps that through bifocals all look alike.
There were opportunities between services to discuss some of the issues around addiction and recovery, not a lot about Jesus. The knowing and understanding questions and comments were almost entirely from women, many of whom from time to time nodded in assent. The men were ominously silent.
Nobody seemed at all interested in picking up on addiction as about anything other than “alcohol and drugs,” never even “…and other drugs.” On the subject of addiction to power or greed or war or orthodoxy or churchmanship or shopping or cars or sports or whatever? Forget it. Like grace and some of the other worthies, it’s a word that’s pretty much lost its purchase.
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