Living Words

People Pleasers or Slaves of the Messiah? Galatians 1:1-10 by William Klock The other day the phone rang.  I answered it and a stranger on the other end asked for Veronica.  I passed the phone to her.  I wondered who it was, but I didn’t get much help from Veronica’s end of the conversation.  It was all “Mmhmm” and “Yes” and “Okay”.  I had no idea who it was or what it was about.  In contrast, while walking to the church I ended up following a woman who was having a very loud conversation with someone on her cell phone.  I couldn’t hear the other person, but I had a pretty good idea what he or she was saying based on the responses this woman was angrily yelling into her phone.  Things like, “Oh!  So I’m being dramatic?” and other things I probably shouldn’t repeat in polite company.  We do this reading between the lines when we read St. Paul’s epistles.  In them we have one side of a conversation and, thankfully, it’s a lot more than “Mmhmm” and “Yes” and “Okay”.  In fact, it’s a lot more like “Oh!  So I’m