I will get right to it here. As the title implies I just don’t seem to have any patience for wordy writing or speaking anymore. Maybe I have never had that patience but now I am now old enough and bold enough to finally come out and say it. I read so many things lately and my mind is screaming “Come to the point!” Why can’t people just say what they mean?

I was flamed recently for criticizing N.T. Wright who is a pretty well know theologian at least among my Baptist friends.  In a blog interview I read he gave an eighty word sentence in response to a question where three words would have done the job.  Why did he think it was necessary to go on and on with blah, blah, blah? I was basically told that “who am I to criticize such a well know person!!!”

I thoroughly enjoy reading several different blogs  on a daily basis but when they exceed about 500 words I am usually skimming ahead to find the crux of the topic. Is this something that I have acquired in my old age or have I had it for a longer time? Maybe I just learned to skim successfully at an early age and didn’t know it or maybe I have ADD and need some drugs! (a little to late in my life for that)

The actual answer to my impatience is probably that I see the writing on the wall now about my own mortality and don’t want to spend the time I have left listening to someone blithering out useless drivel in a long drawn out way  (ha).  Maybe that is what I am doing now so I better stop right here!! You get the point. Blah, blah, blah…..