If a man impetuously interrupts a speech at a public meeting he clearly reveals his lust for self-glory. Over-powered by this passion, he tries to obstruct the course of the discussion with over-complicated proposals. (St. Maximos the Confessor, Philokalia)

I seldom allow the news of the day to invade my morning meditations. But this seemed to jump off the page.

It is the twenty-seventh of two-hundred "texts" on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God by a First Century saint.

The texts begin with, "God is one, unoriginate, incomprehensible, possessing completely the total potentiality of being, altogether excluding notions of when and how, inaccessible to all, and not to be known through natural image by any creature."

Twenty-six texts later the logic of divine nature unfolds into how we ought to behave at a public meeting.

Our relationship with God depends a great deal on how we are in relationship with every aspect of God's creation.