"Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell." Frederick Buechner
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
A Parable From A Prior
Many years ago there was a high stakes poker game between J. P. Morgan, Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler.
The pot kept growing as they looked at their hands and examined one another.
Finally J. P. Morgan called and put down his two pair and started to rake in the pot, saying, "It's all about money."
Freud cleared his throat, put down his full house and started to rake in the pot sying, "Money is really about sex."
Adler put down his four aces and took the winnings, saying, "Money and sex are really about power."
-- Prior Aelred
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Prior Aelred, good to have you around again. I've been missing you since Fr. Jake's silence. How good of Elizabeth to give you space.
Adler got it right, didn't he?
Nevertheless, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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