Anything is possible ... until God exhales!

In anticipation of receiving Barbara Brown Taylor's new book, An Altar in the World I went back yesterday evening to re-read her little gem on preaching, When God is Silent. I didn't really get past the first page where she offers the challenging statement: Anything is possible until God exhales.

Later on she adds this:

'While the scholars of deconstructionism insist that even our best, most carefully chosen words are not sturdy enogh to bear the truth, most preachers wield words such as God or faith
as if they were made out of steel instead of air.

It is not hard to understand why.
Like the rest of us, those speakers rely on such language to pin down the flapping edges of the universe, even when it does not match up with all that we know to be true.'

Pass the mallet please ...
I've got a sermon to write.