We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Blog to Say: Wendy Goofed
After yesterday's awkward and insensitive entry (which I removed after further thought), I am sitting here trying to come up with a post that will portray me as gracious, classy, sober-minded, ladylike and all those other words people never use to describe me. (With good reason, obviously.) A redeeming post is failing me right now because I'm still beating myself up. I think anyone who read the post will agree that it was in very poor taste, and for that I apologize. How right Kent was when he told me at the very beginning, "You will mess up, and when you do, you'll mess up in front of a lot of people!"
A Unique Experience
One of the advantages (for you, the reader, but a definite disadvantage for me) that you don't find anywhere else in heavily edited periodicals is that blogs are written by very real people, especially this one. It's a chance for you to peer into the life of a fellow Christian almost as it's happening, and when you do, you wind up witnessing my triumphs as well as my failures. In return, I get to make my voice heard and perhaps, somewhere along the way, encourage a person or two, which is the real reason I write. For that reason, I consider the exchange well worth it. The blog, or at least this one, it seems, often works as a two way street. God uses it sometimes as a blessing to others -- my wonderful readers tell me sometimes how timely I am -- but sometimes the lesson learned is for me.
Which Still Doesn't Let Me Off the Hook
The lessons I learn do not excuse nor justify my making mistakes to the detriment of my readers, so I will not, in the future, allow myself to forget that I am ultimately blogging for the glory of God (isn't that a weird statement!), rather than for my own personal promotion. After all, if I do allow Wendy to take center stage (admittedly not much of a show), then how can I continue to be scornful of televangelists? Not to mention it robs God of His rightful place.
So, for those of you who witnessed Monday's mistake, please forgive me. For those of you who didn't and are now dying of curiosity, be assured you didn't miss much. We will return to your regularly scheduled blog tomorrow.
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