Sarcasm & cell phones

Hello all.

It has been a few weeks since my last blog. Sorry. After looking at John's new blog, Seth's video blogging and Johnny's Ecclesia sites I feel pretty neglectful. Tonight I really had something to talk about - cell phones, voicemail and sarcasm.

Do you ever have a problem with your cell phone constantly receiving calls. Your voice mailbox ever get so full it reaches the limit? Yes, I have done that many times. I am not sure why it bothers me so much, but I get irked when people tell me that I have not returned their message quick enough. Or, they say something about never getting me live on the phone. It seems the comments are always sarcastic. John has preached on sarcasm a couple times- in Greek sarcasm means 'cutting of the flesh'. Sometimes I wish God would just allow for all cell phone connectivity to be down for months. We could just get a break and take a breath in life. Then, God could take all sarcasm and make it go away---like forever. So people could actually talk about stuff instead of provoking something else.

Really, I am not needing counseling on this issue. It just became a hotspot because a couple of really close friends and I had this discussion. They were being sarcastic and so was I. In the end feelings get hurt, you know? They are like family to me so it hurt even more when the "sarcasm" hurt was vocalized.

Funny thing is when I was dating Katherine she thought I had funny sense of humor. Then somewhere during the marriage my humor turned to sarcasm. I don't know how that works. Anyway, my point tonight is three fold: 1) don't get on your friends if they don't always answer their phone calls; 2) if your voice mail is always full consider changing your phone number; 3) try to kill the sarcasm this week. If you are making humor at the expense of someone else (oh yeah, God made them perfect), that would be sarcasm.

Looking forward to seeing 15 pastors speak their own messages this weekend. See you at 11am and 6pm Sunday! Love always wins.

George