Frank DeLalla

If you look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. - Steve Jobs

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

-Ronaldus Magnus

. . . pastors are provided a substantial constituency in which to act godlike.  Unlike many other temptations that are associated with elements of morality and so have visible social and physical penalties, this temptation is almost purely spiritual and commonly receives social reinforcement.  If we speak the word of God long enough and often enough, it doesn’t take a great leap of the imagination to take up the pose of the God who is speaking the word.  If the pose is reinforced by the admiring credulity of the people around me, and benefits of power and adulation begin to accrue, I will most certainly continue to flee the presence of the Lord, for that is the one place where i am sure to be exposed as a pretender.

Eugene Peterson – from Under the Unpredictable Plant p. 13.