I’m being dragged into things of the spirit, even of the (Holy) Spirit, running across (a) a blog like this [and (b), see below]:

Here are the readings for 3/4/10. [Micah 7, Luke 15]

I have been struggling with this reading for the last couple of days. I thought I had this great post all ready to type up. But then something happened…

This is his “spiritual director,” and “This is what he look[s] like when I tell him I haven’t been praying,” says the blogger, “Louis,” of “Brooklyn, New York, United States,” a 25–year-old social work student who is “in the middle of applying [for entry into the Jesuits.”  They “can still tell [him] ‘No,’” he says.  (Hat tip, Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit.)

The blog is Momma said . . . What a waste. On it he quotes Joyce Brothers up front:

“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”

Not a Brothers fan myself, but the guy presents arresting commentary on Scripture and  bizarre and telling stuff to go with it — photo-shopped, he says — as of that curmudgeonly spiritual director above.

And this to go with the Canaanite woman’s plea to Jesus, “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters”:

What’s (b)?  A facebook fellow who also cites Scripture.  He knows of me through another guy who ran county board president-elect Preckwinkle’s campaign whom I also have not met but with whom I exchanged pleasantries during her campaign, in which I supported her opponent O’Brien. 

I just hope this new “friend” doesn’t cite Scripture to his purpose, a la the devil per Antonio in “Merchant,” because he’s a “progresive” Democrat, it seems, with no purpose I can endorse. 

After all,

An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Ah, the demands on one living in a pluralistic society.