08 September 2010

You know you have been...

...reading too much Nagel when you look at a homily you've written, wrinkle your brow, and wonder how on earth you ended up being gifted with so many passives.

2 comments:

George said...

The Lord rejoices in the passive voice! At least when we use it; He's using active voice. And we can rejoice in that too!

William Weedon said...

Ah, the joy of being nothing but given to...of being put in a place to be the instrumentum for the serving out of the means of grace...of being enlivened to praise...of being added to the long line of gift giver outers...