Spiritual Dangers of Power

And What Really Matters.

Few people come to Washington to be insignificant or overlooked. Many come with what is called a "lust for power" or more innocuously just a desire for influence-to make a mark. The good try to make a difference that matters. And we know Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
So there is a lot of posturing going on to prove oneupsmanships -doctrinally, and positionally. It's pure ego. The good can and do get drowned by the greed.
There is a very good reason why Pride is a deadly sin-because it eclipses an ability to Love. It is too self consumingly preoccupied with status, position and power. Washington can be a deadly place for that reason. Trumpetting Laurels abound all around. People demanding respect for their positions. Lookie Me Lookie Me Lookie Me everywhere you turn.
Narcism elevated to the highest art form.
Anything that eclipses an ability to love is a handicap-a disability- a counterproductive enterprise. A waste of time.
Because LOVE is the whole game. That is it. It is the bridge.
This is why I find it so hard to take watching clergy get off on wearing ridiculous looking embroidery and hats that went out with the turn of the Renaissance. OK colored yarmulkas are fine-I don't care if you want to embroider on them fun slogans like "LOOK UP!" but if you get wrapped around the axle around all the vestment colors for any other reason than it covers your wrinkled shirt, I am not particularly impressed by Roman Aristocratic Robes nor hats borrowed from a Saturday Night Live skit. Return to Wardrobe after Dress Rehearsal Please.

And all the religious commentary trashing the people who try to maintain a healthy distance in the "church-state" divide with the sanctimonious rhetoric of Head Pharisees should just pick up the whole pond and take it home with them so they can gaze endlessly into it at their own blog comments.

Love- it's the whole game.
There used to be a word said about such people: Get a Dog, Name it "Life" then you will have one.
I want to be more charitable. "Get a girlfriend, call it ''Wife" then you will have one.





It is the pettiest of people who fall headlong into this trap- the really truly powerful tend to be more discrete and not need the hooplah Lookie Me show.