Confessions

Unlike Usher, my confession will not be a conversation over the phone in which I tell my girlfriend that I lied about working and was actually in L.A. with my ex-girlfriend, or "that slut" depending on which lyrics site you look at.

Hold on, I'm gonna get a little churchy for a minute:

Some more serious thoughts: We only have public confession in the Lutheran church. I am not quite sure why we did away with private confession to a priest (although I think most protestant denominations have...excepting the Epsicopalians of whom I am so fond). Maybe it's that thing Martin Luther had about not wanting to depend too much on priests. It's probably somewhere in the priesthood of believers idea that you have a direct line to God and you can be absolved of your sins by God alone or through a priest. In Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner points out that in the sacraments, God uses physical things for sanctification: water for baptism, oil for confirmation of baptism, bread and wine for communion and a human being for confession. Perhaps Martin Luther wanted to focus on community: publicly we confess our sins together and then another person with authority (the pastor) says "I declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." I think the part of confession that suprised me the most when I first became Lutheran was that we confessed not only the things we had done, but also those we had left undone. Not only am I responsible for what I do, I am also responsible for things I should have done and did not do.

So here are a few random confessions, not because I need to tell them, but because I think they're kind of silly:

1.) I have a superiority complex about my Honda Civic because most other Honda Civics don't have a spoiler. I feel like my car is better than everyone else's.
2.) I can remember a few times as a kid when I didn't feel like brushing my teeth when my mom told me to. Instead, I ate toothpaste so that my breath would smell like I had. Somehow, this must have seemed like less work to me.
3.) Somtimes I think Jane Austen is maybe high brow romance writing for me. (MY GOSH, I CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST SAID THAT!) I take it back!!!! Okay, this is probably true on some level, but screw romance writing, what I love about JA is that her writing is so applicable to life and her characters are so real (and she has a great sarcastic sense of humor). I love you, Jane Austen, and I swear myself your defender against anyone who would slander you.
4.) I've always been jealous of kids that got to eat Flintstone vitamins. I was never allowed to have them.


Lucas gave me this Chinese Self-Assessment Questionnaire. One of the most fascinating questions it asks is: "What are your most trying dilemas, conflicts, and contradictions?" I think answering this question is kind of like going to confession.


JA Quote of the day: "Are the shades of Pemberly to be thus polluted?"