Failure to Communicate

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

“War games” is an oxymoron, unless you think killing women and children is entertaining. We usually consider such actions criminal pathology.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You accompany and support us in the midst of our hectic schedules. Your presence makes it possible for us to get from one job to the next, from home to school to church, to grocery store to baseball game without losing focus and without losing all contact with you. You provide the extra energy we need to make our way through the extra busy parts of our lives. When we ask for it, you supply a well of calm and serenity so we can move through the busyness with a measure of grace and poise. In a way, this is what you nurture us toward – grace under pressure. It marks a kind of test for us, a Spiritual Achievement Test (SAT) that measures spiritual maturity. We might prefer the slow and deliberate pace, but there is an emotional rush when we meet the tension in a tight schedule and get put through our spiritual paces.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“What we have here, Pilate, is a failure to communicate.”

[True, no doubt, but He didn’t say it.]

D. Blog: Word of the Week – “oxymoron”

[Thanks to the Online Etymology Dictionary]

1657, from Gk. oxymoron, noun use of neut. of oxymoros (adj.) "pointedly foolish," from oxys "sharp" + moros "stupid." Rhetorical figure by which contradictory terms are conjoined so as to give point to the statement or expression; the word itself is an illustration of the thing. Now often used loosely to mean "contradiction in terms."