“17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. 25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” (Eph 4:17–32 ESV)

Recollection is foundation to the pinnacle thought, that is, the recollection of so much unspoken, unquantified, un-ledgered Structures, Giftings, Accomplishments, Social Glue. None of us is adequate to bear in mind so much Fabric. We all are aped by the claim that a hasty Leader need be installed, to combat rampant wickedness or unworthy Headship. It is all too Plausible. All too humiliating, too, because we Forget: no, a vote of confidence in a person does not create a New Office called Commander-in-Chief in any sense beyond that office as it already exists and is already subject to ritual and pageantry, to Submission and chain-of-command. No, let us never forget: the world is myriad in how many Headships, corporate Sponsorships, private Gestalts, little Microcosms, do flourish and co-exist and Inspire, do keep a bit silent on some fronts lest they Attract Analytic Opposition.

Legal opposition; denouncing Vocal opposition; a Fact of each individual having a Calvinistic “Calling” to labor in the vineyard in ways they are specially Created to do: their Calling, their Giftings, their Analytical Mind or Laboring Body or Listening Soul. Each is Called to End the Mirage or Simulacra of Ghosted-Presences, fake Authors and Authorities, somehow appealing to the restedness and calm sentiments that accompany Submission, Childhood amongst a Parent, a Decisive devil-may-care Presence.

The devil-may-care wildebeest meets the Soldier in platoon and in the Watchtower, no longer Respected as deserving a Formal Greeting or gently-handled via Social Custom, but rather a Dastardly Rebuke: if things were taken to Trial, where to begin? It can thus seem. But too, we have no Claim to headship—even in our personal sphere—if we cannot Go Low, speak from a posture of Appreciation and Cautious Regret. The formal Requirements and Channels of one Calling or another Calling, somehow do not magically dispel in that all-important Calling called Clerical: the clergy-person is also to have zero stock in the fight, have nothing to be gained and everything to uphold their persona to a Higher Judgment Seat. They are tasked not as the Head of each and every community, but as one’s possessed of a Calling: equal to the laborer or thinker, equal to the stockbroker or entrepreneur.

The times call for Repudiation, for some Parable or Storyline around Utter Rebuke: we have gone comfy, and the Peace has prevailed for decades: only now, we need utterly to Rebuke. We need utterly to come to Awareness that strange lusts and aped Antagonisms against the persons of a neighbor or peer, do Rise Up and fluster. We will win this one, but it will not be gratifying or Reaffirming of our Righteous Entreaty. It will cost us, like it cost Christ the Cross: cost us that in the end we will not have Won until we see things like the enemy, and mourn overall the Fact of War in the first place: how hardwon any victory is, and how hardfought every Battle is: solemn Celebration arises to announce the V-Day, but solemn indeed. Where were we, after all: so eager at the outset, knowing the soldiers’ call is to give all with no reward except an Eternal Reward; so unlike the stockbroker or ambitious academic or capitalist or legally-bound corporation. Here, let us focus the microscope, on Special Realities unfolding, gestating and enveloping all wandering Thoughts: we are Peace and calm to the hour of needful Battle. We Believe there is an Immediate Answer to life’s impossible sin-drenched intrusions. It is an answer called Repentance, called Immediate Belief that the Spirit is real and approaches us in our hour of need.