Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
AUTHOR, WRITE US/RIGHT US!
AUTHOR, WRITE US/RIGHT US!
It is difficult for an author to edit its own writing. That author sees what is not there and does not see what is there. Too close to the creation to view the creature in an unbiased way, is its author. Let another edit.
"One pray and one preach," is one effective idiom that has resolved one family pulpit dilemma at rural reunions, involving two preachers . One man prays, while the other one preaches , and everybody sings!
Such a prudent division of labor is efficient and equitable, being like Paul planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 1 Cor. 3:6.
Such segmented service is presented best in viewing the body's design, with each part serving its function in accordance with primal purpose. None being greater than the other. All rendering wholistic service, in accord with divinely devolved duty.
An author needs an editor as an editor needs an author. One such famous pairing in American literary history was William Dean Howells as editor, and Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemons, as author.
Left -right; male-female; constant-variable; carrier-modulator are also pairings symbolizing this function .
That function is to allocate service equitably among and between all available parts, favoring none, each in accordance with its own purpose or design, then, harvest bountifully.
The author and finisher of our faith is Jesus, says Heb. 12:2. Asking God to "right us" from our greed or biased edits is a plea to that Author to write us, in the Book of Life, and to right us in the Walk of Life.