76 Trombones
Seventy-Six trombones in a big parade, with a hundred and ten coronets close at hand, as we fight, Fight, FIGHT for all that is right, and the boys are marching with the band.
Dunno if those are the right lyrics.
But this is my 76th post, and I thought I could commemorate that number with some cyber-song.
Beyond an already hyper-correct society and its influences, there is the church-culture to deal with as well. Notice that I did not say "gospel," as the good news of Jesus Christ does not demand mortal perfection, holistic flawnessness, or ubiquitous correction. All that life requires, at the very least, is concerted competence. Effort, and diligence. So many of us, in reaching beyond the mark, miss it entirely. We attempt to overachieve and consequently, we are disheartened and fall short of even our least expectations. Perhaps it would be best to take small steps at a time, and reach a small forward point, than to attempt boggling bounds and fall in a heap - ultimately not progressing in any unit of measure. Maybe even regressing or often, suspended in limbo. Neither good nor bad, just there. Hanging on strings and living the sad life of a marionette.
1 comment:
You are so prodigious! It kills me that so few people respond.
Anyway, looking beyond the mark... I think this is related to solemn mockeries. Those practices, assertions, mindsets that unitentionally mock the proper order of things. Mormon just gives us infant baptism as a clear example of a solemn mockery. But I'm convinced that when we run faster than we have strength (i.e. when we think "all we can do" means unbalancing everything in our lives toward church stuff), we make an unitentioned mockery of the atonement. It's a solemn mockery because we're usually so damn serious when we overexert ourselves.
Your post is a good reminder that gospel living is too serious to take too seriously.
Again, thanks.
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