I
love the old Texas saying, “The only things you find in the middle of the road
are a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.”
But that’s not Episcopalian!
Depending on your point of view, we either see all sides or are “afraid
of commitment.” We take pride
(acknowledging, of course, that we shouldn’t be prideful) in the fact that at
any gathering, you can probably find someone who agrees with you and someone
who disagrees with you and that the disagreement will not be disagreeable. (The last part is the ideal, but I like to
think it happens more often than not.
And we usually don’t have problems with saying things happen “more often
than not.”)
This
stance may seem to be the easiest to take, but is it? While I don’t agree with the Catholic Church’s
insistence on rules or with various denominations’ certainty that they know the
only way to get to heaven, I sometimes think that such things must make life
easier. I sometimes even wish I could
believe such things and have such trust in my spiritual leaders.
I
sometimes think it would relaxing to believe “the Pope or the Bible or my
pastor says so; I believe it and my job is to obey,” although even those people
who do admit that it’s hard.
As
I write this, I am waiting to come up with a “but.” “But, of course, this isn’t good because . .
.” And it isn’t. But sometimes, like
right now, I can’t think of a reason why.
So
I continue on the middle way, with a fairly strong certainty that it’s best.
What
do you think?
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