Barkings Of An Old Dog

Timely, I must say. Over on the new blog epiScope, there’s a small PayPal button labeled “Tip Jar - Change is good”. I’ve been pondering change for the last couple of months. Do we really believe this?

Last year, our church undertook 2 major projects (major for us is nickels and dimes for a big church), both of which changed the look and feel of the church. I used to refer to one of the projects, before it was done, as our Third Rail… touch that area around the altar and you will surely die. Now that it’s done, it looks terrific and adds up to a wonderful improvement. Likewise the second change has become a beautiful addition.

Now on the scale of “don’t change anything, ever” to “change anything and everything”, I’m guessing most Episcopalians are somplace in the left-center… and I’m probably way over on the right. Change is good. Change keeps people thinking about what matters. We are blessed to have a low maintenance physical plant. It isn’t beautiful in a cathedral, stone, copper, slate, dark polished oak infused with centuries of incense way, but it also doesn’t eat away our entire budget to maintain it. Now that we’ve done a couple of these changes, it seems to me that if we don’t do any changes, then we’ve made an idol out of a building.

Anyway, as epiScope says, “Change is good”.

“last night that the Episcopal Church has created its first news blog“… well thinks me, that’s probably good, move with the times, etc. etc… but then I go to the site and see on the right hand side “Eyes left” and “Eyes right”. Well. Is that the major headings we want to project? I’m neither. I’m “Eyes on the Prize”. Eyes fixed on one thing. Two buckets separates. Now I know you can say it’s a yin/yang kind of classification, that the parts create a whole. Okay, then make them whole.

Now there’s “Eyes center” too… well, 3 buckets to sort the fish into…

Oh, and they forgot MadPriest!