I-YOUniverse » Buttrick http://www.i-youniverse.net inviting I-Thou relations Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:55:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 the winter of our discontent…. http://www.i-youniverse.net/2009/01/15/the-winter-of-our-discontent/ http://www.i-youniverse.net/2009/01/15/the-winter-of-our-discontent/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:48:01 +0000 jlh http://www.i-youniverse.net/?p=1013 Continue reading →]]>

 

 

There’s no way, in my present state of mind, I can continue the planned essays on prayer. I confess I am royally screwed.

They were to be loftier than I can manage at the moment. I started using the short Benedictine Breviary, but am finding it a lot more busy than I want my prayer life to be, so I have retreated to the fall back position of

  • AM psalms + gospel;
  • PM psalms + epistle, and
  • the Hebrew Bible when I get around to it, which is not often enough.

For several days I’ve grumped at God, a consciousness like that of morning minus sunrise and coffee.

Hoping for better days, I’ll pass along a nugget from my preaching course with George Buttrick. It’s a bit dated but still lustrous.

He said preaching is like the boardwalk at Atlantic City. The preacher needs to preach on the ocean, not the amusements.

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