Saturday, 9/2/17
In today's Gospel, Jesus
urges us to fully develop the abilities with which we were born.
He wants us to make the best
of our bodies, minds, and social skills. In this regard, there is an area we seldom
consider; namely, our skill at writing clearly.
We all have scatterings of good
ideas on every subject; but they remain of little use, unless we can properly blend
them in writing a journal, a letter, or a lesson.
Our scatterings of ideas are
like the canisters of flour and sugar in our kitchen cabinet. They are like the pound of butter and the pint of milk in our
fridge. They are only unpalatable ingredients unless we combine them in exact
proportion, baking them at the proper time and heat. Only
then will we have a fine cake.
So, when we sit down to blend
our thoughts into coherent sentences and paragraphs, we will find that the
process itself brings us to an awareness of charming and useful sequences of
thoughts. We bake our cake.
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