Hi GP, Here's $0.02 from a newcomer who's never heard you be harsh (but King David a protest singer??) Anyway I fall somewhere between M Ted and Quincy in the active/passive role of God. But I think that life, when looking forward is as Ted described--ain't nothin' did that I don't did. When looking back however, I can say--WOW the scrapes that I've been spared.

In the interest of pursuing the best choice we are often not very honest judges of our motives or our abilities. My good friend who taught seminary for 35 years is fond of telling the tale of a very earest student of his who "felt the call". After a year's struggle through his homiletics course my friend had to pull the student aside and point out that, no matter how "called" to preach he might feel, he was sure no one was "called" to listen.

Jeeeez I feel called to play my guitar but, in the hospital in my town, on a bulletin board on the 3rd floor nurses station there's this note;

"If patients do not respond to normal sedative, call John Hardly. He will play the guitar for them--it NEVER fails. Should you need to induce vomiting--he has offered to sing too."

Some dreams die hard. For you--have you called Praise yet?

John "Elmer" Hardly