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February 08, 2007
Thinking and Rethinking
Behind the facade of composure this week, I’ve been seething with annoyance and frustration over a series of irritations. I know that one should never ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence, but sometimes one confronts a situation in which one’s respect for others obliges one to ponder which is more charitable: to think someone else foolish, or to think them malign? And since I think that artificial forced choices signal a perniciously constrained imagination, what besides malice or incompetence might explain startlingly misguided behavior?
In such circumstances, this morning’s epistle lesson included 2 Timothy 2:23-25, “Have nothing to do with stupid and senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to everyone, an apt teacher, patient, correcting opponents with gentleness.” Oooops.
Posted by AKMA at February 8, 2007 10:18 AM | Threadorati
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