Consecrated Space has a blog post so good that it has inspired me to begin blogging. She starts by complaining about the way evangelicals talk about "devotions" and then riffs perfectly on the great skill with which Christians turn grace into law. One of her touch points is Exodus 16, the Old Testament reading for Laetare which for you non-Latin speakers means last Sunday, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 18th; otherwise known as "National Irish-American Hangover Day."
It occurred to me that magic happens when lots and lots of Christians are meditating on the same text at the same time due to the use of the one-year lectionary. Using the lectionary in an age of social networking has some powerful advantages that the people who came up with the lectionary could never have imagined, as the Internet was centuries in the future. And the people who invented the Internet likely never heard of the lectionary.
It's not magic, magic is make-believe. The God who gave the lectionary to the church is the same God who, much later, gave the Internet to the church. This God is not make-believe, and sometimes it almost looks like He knows what He is doing!
So this Consecrated Space post goes on to build a very good "devotion" out of a post that begins by complaining about devotions. That blogger knows how to write, which should not surprise when one looks at her bio and knows something about the University that she attended.
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