This had nothing to do with your post.  Actually my first wasn't supposed to be a response to your post.  I had actually planned on posting it based on recent events, saw yours, read it, realized I didn't want to confuse the issue, but didn't want to do the "Did you see what I posted here thing?". :)

Don't know if that makes sense and if it doesn't I'll hit you up via e-mail.

As for whether the folks above are actually far from God, they may well be.  However what you need to keep in mind is most people write what they know.  The above entry started with a whole lot more "I"s in the sentences before I slowly removed them.  And this is not always obvious.  Re-read the content of the previous discontentment and the paragraphs about me, was that me being content in my discontentment?  Or what I describe above?

I find myself avoiding a *lot* of posts around here because that is how they strike me.  I don't know if I'm being cynical, or whether it's of the nature of "Takes one to know one".  Basically what it comes down to is am I glorifying the fact that I am a sinner to gain sympathy or show that I'm holy?  Or am I doing so because I feel I can teach with it?  It's a matter of the heart, but it's the heart of this matter.

I've had it pointed out to me over the years that I worry too much about the subtleties.  The thing is that I think the subtleties are what makes all the difference in the world. 

The Ragmuffin book was a very enjoyable book to read.   I know I've been picking on it a bit as of late but part of that is because someone just asked me what it was specifically that I didn't like about it.  So it's been on the brain.

And by avoiding a lot of posts, I don't mean not actually reading them.  But there are a lot that I don't comment on because I don't know how to.