August 11, 2022

Speaking of Wendall Berry (yesterday’s ADD), I was recently told that I was “no Wendall Berry.” That came as a relief, actually, as it deflated an image of myself that bore no reality to my actual self. Most of us labor under versions of ourselves (better, smarter, more put together, etc.) that bear little resemblance to the person that walks around in our skin and thinks with our brain and closes our eyelids at night.

The psalmist says, “Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.” (Psalm 51:6) God is interested in the actual you. Because the actual you is the one that He sent His Son to die for.

“Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Proper 11 – BCP)