kicking the darkness
I preached today. I don t know there s often a lingering sense that I was far from adequate. I still haven t preached my best. I preached on Psalm 37. My basic 3 points were:
1. depart from evil
2. do good
3. and you won t regret it.
Simple. Verse 27 summarizes the whole psalm this way:
Depart from evil, and do good;
So you shall abide forever.
I feel there is something so solidly true about this, even in spite of the obvious denials of it, the physical proofs that it ain t so. I have to believe that God is our refuge, bottom line. That justice will prevail. So I preach on. I ll "kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight (Bruce Cockburn).