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Right ON!!
You and I are in complete agreement on this. Mediocrity is the result of complacency and weakness. MORAL mediocrity is what allows evil people to be so powerful in this world.
Mediocrity is an acceptance-- no, an EMBRACING of one's faults. It is a refusal to do anything about one'e faults. It is an insisting that one has a RIGHT to one's faults, and no one had better try to take them away! People get very angry when we try to inspire them to improve. Like the foolish girl who wrote you a letter insisting that God approves of mediocrity. She won't be improving any time soon, in this life or the next.
Just as you said, mediocrity lacks love, it embraces the minimum. Further, it is selfish, and it condemns anyone who tries to point out these things.
I don't really care where a person is on the path to moral excellence and spiritual maturity...... all I ask is that they KEEP WALKING. When they stop walking on that path, they become stagnant, and they begin to rot. Like they say, no moss gathers on a rolling stone. So LET'S ROLL.
The trouble is, I can't roll very fast on the path because it is so littered with all these people who have decided to sit down and rot. There are so many, they almost form a continuous roadblock. I have to stop and move them out of way, or slowly thread my way through them. I give them a friendly wave and offer a hand to help them get up, but most of them curse me and tell me to go away. The more you try to help them, the more angry they get.
This is where you may be in a better position. In your role as minister, you have more people around you who are honestly trying to improve themselves. I see the church as a spiritual hospital, and most of the people who come there are seeking help for themselves, or seeking to help others. This very noble, and it is much different than the secular world, where many people are actually seeking to hurt.
posted by
GoldenMean
on July 4, 2004 at 11:09 AM
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Right ON!
posted by
GoldenMean
on July 4, 2004 at 10:42 AM
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