Thursday, January 10, 2002
Thursday, January 10, 2002
But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent
way.
"It's up to the bottom of the desks!" said Mencken as he rose to his feet. "It's up to the
seats of our chairs!" he shouted as he jumped onto his chair.
"What are you talking about?" asked one of his incredulous colleagues.
"It's up to the tops of our desks!" shouted Mencken as he jumped to the top of his desk.
"What do you mean?" rang a chorus of shouts.
"Mediocrity!" came the caustic reply. "We're drowning in mediocrity!" he shouted over
and over as he jumped from the desk and rushed out the door, never to return.
H. L. Mencken was a prophet far ahead of his time. If ever there was a shout that would
ring true for our society, it is this one, "We're drowning in a sea of mediocrity."
St. Paul's words at the end of the twelfth chapter of I Corinthians sound sweet to our
ears, "But I will show you a more excellent way." Thank God! In this shallow world how
our hearts yearn for a more excellent way.
(1 Corinthians 12.31
NRSV)
One day at a particularly quiet moment in the normally noisy newsroom where he
worked, young H. L. Mencken shouted at the top of his lungs, "It's coming in the doors!"
Needless to say, everyone stopped and looked in his direction.
Dear God, give me the insight I need to know your more excellent way as I rise above
the mediocrity in my life. Amen.
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