LOST OPPORTUNITIES
The following is from a sermon by Mark Trotter, pastor of the First United Methodist Church San Diego: Some time ago in The New York Times Book Review, Edward Dahlberg wrote an article about lost opportunities. He illustrated it with an encounter that he had with Theodore Dreiser. He said that he had longed to know Dreiser, but when he thought about getting in touch with him he shied away from the opportunity. He just assumed that Dreiser would be engaged in such monumental work that he couldn’t be bothered. Besides that, he thought, “What do I have to offer Theodore Dreiser? If I telephoned him, he’d hang up the phone and I’d be humiliated.” Finally he had the opportunity to talk with Dreiser, and then saw him several other times on social occasions, but he always thought that he was impinging on the great author’s time. Then Dreiser died. A few years after that, a biography was published about Dreiser and…
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