Rogue Reverend

Shameless Plug and Shower Thoughts

I really do go to the greatest church. Each 5th Sunday of the month, we meet together for an awesome potluck. Today’s food included turkey curry, beans and rice, and a chicken and rice meal. Oh! And there were amazing homemade biscuits.

I posted another blog about my church members who shaved their heads in honor of St. Baldrick’s Day, but here’s a pic. Jen has the most beautiful shaved head…

Bald is Beautiful

And I promised more shower thoughts. These were this evening’s:

I’m not exactly sure how much you can see, but it says, “Dumping the Violence,” and “Can Suffering Just Be?”

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.