Rogue Reverend

More Shower Writing and Staying Tuned

I don’t know if it makes any sense, but here’s more of the writing. I can’t imagine that it makes much sense to you, since I don’t understand it.

I had a lovely evening tonight with a friend from church. I so wanted to explain all of Sunday’s sermon to her, because our conversation went to the same places that the sermon is going. But I just stayed quiet.

It’s like saying, “Stay tuned.”

Shower Ingenuity

I get my best ideas in the shower. It’s true! I write nearly all of my sermons and blog posts there. I figure out where I’m going with them, outline them, then get out of the shower and try to remember my genius thoughts. Most of the time, I can only approximate the genius that I create in the shower.

Rest assured, though, that this post wasn’t written in the shower. Hence, the lack of brilliance.

In order to capture the creativity of the cleansing, I bought tub crayons today. Crayola TaDoodles Washable Crayons at that.

TaDoodles!

I’ve decided this evening (in the steamy shower, of course) that I’m going to post some of my notes from the shower. This evening’s notes look like this:

Reasons to REJECT Xty (that’s Christianity)

Spiritual Emotional Intellectual
Manipulation Family Violence
Experience Violence and Disconnect Make Sense?

Ultimately, what does it say about:
God
Humanity
Self

Obviously, I didn’t come to any conclusions about anything, but this is the beginning of my next sermon, to be preached on Palm/Passion Sunday. It’s just the beginning of the conversation.

My friend John Morse, one of the editors of the Birmingham Wiki page, teased me, saying, “Have you considered that it’s the absence of things like crayons that make the shower conducive to reflection?”

Well, the crayons wash off. Thank goodness.