That's the word we came up with when we were kids. It was our shorthand for those times when our peers were calling us names or otherwise "putting us down." What we meant whenever we said that to someone, our coded message if you will, was: "let it roll off your back like water off a duck."
Some things are just not worthy of our emotional investment. We deny them power over us by treating them as something that has about as much sticking power as water sliding off a duck. To quote from a recent movie, sometimes you just need to, "Let it go." As a current pop star might put it: just shake it off.
Pick your mechanism. Choose the idiom that works for you. However we do it, we need to, somehow, separate what is not important from what is. In fact, if we haven't done so, yet, we need to start emphasizing what is truly important in every aspect of our existence. And, at some point, we need to give zero time to those matters which are really only distractions from what actually matters.
In this week's Lectionary selection from the book of Hebrews, the writer talks about the time when God will shake off the created realm so that all that remains is the eternal.
As we prepare for that time, we need to keep moving ourselves away from what is only temporary and toward what is everlasting; to behold the only things that truly matter, and to shed what only seems, and only momentarily, consequential.
Duckwater.
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READINGS FOR THE COMING WEEK
Proper 16 (21) (August 21, 2016
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Psalm 71:1-6
Isaiah 58:9b-14
Psalm 103:1-8
Hebrews 12:18-29
Luke 13:10-17
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We would love for you to join us Friday morning for Lectionary Breakfast. We meet at 8:00 at the Waco "Egg and I" restaurant for an hour of scripture, discussion, tasty food, and lasting sustenance.
Blessings!
Steve
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