... somebody thought up a few years back: “We’ve never done it that way before!” That reminds me of the late Bishop Gerald Kennedy’s comments about a church he had where one layperson held the opinion that “nothing ought ever to be done for ... never done it that way before.” If there is an “Eighth Last Word” I would suggest that it might well be: “Restructure.” John Gardner, in his book “Self-Renewal,” says: “The last act of a dying organization is to get out a new and enlarged edition of ...
Is it tomorrow, or is it still yesterday? In the cartoon, Dennis the Menace is tugging at his dad's covers, and Mr. Mitchell is trying to lift one eyelid. Dennis wants to know, "Is it tomorrow yet? Or is it still yesterday?" It's a profound question. Something like that -- some 2000-year-old Aramaic version of it anyway -- must have been in the minds of the women on their way to the tomb. In fact, they went to the tomb fully expecting to find yesterday, and instead found tomorrow. They went expecting death ...
