Because it really is personal…

When I’m tense, nervous,uptight,whatever…things don’t come out right. I say something, meaning one thing, and something slightly different comes out and I end up offending someone, or making the wrong point…or something.

You’d think, after some 40 years of speaking experience, that I would learn to keep my mouth shut during certain circumstances, but no…I have to plow through and behave as though my sensibilities are the only ones that matter.

See, it’s like this. My very best friends are Christians. *I* am a Christian. Sometimes I am frustrated with the trappings of Southern Christianity, with the rules and regulations and the very public face it seems to wear so often. It puzzles me sometimes, and dismays me at others. And yet, when a friend offers to pray for me, or to go out of their way to help me out, I am grateful.

I’ve never been accused of being consistant.

Christian friends of mine- don’t change. Sometimes, don’t even listen to me, or if you do just shake your head and roll your eyes and think something like “there she goes again.”

I think I’ll go get dressed and put something mellow on the stereo.