Sometimes as theologians, exegetes, theobloggers and bibliobloggers; I think it is quite easy to get sucked into the game of it all, and forget that who we are claiming to talk about all the time is actually a Who, and is paying attention to what we say (see Malachi 3.16). Even for those of us who want to construct theological grammars that are attuned to the personalist, triune, and loving nature of our God. It is all too easy to slip into modes of communication and thinking about God that allow us to talk about Him, instead of to Him (as we “theologize”). It is as if somehow we have distantiated ourselves from the very one we claim to worship. I realize that this is part of the task of being a professional (or even amateur) theologian, but then I wonder; “should it be?” If we are so engaged in providing structure for the Church to talk about God through, and then fail to actually talk to the God we are supposedly talking about all the time; can we really claim to be even talking about Him? I know that some people place concerns like mine into the category of piety (and even pietism). But really, that seems to me to be an rather artficial category that theologians have invented in order to continue in a type of what has been called a theology of glory; where the theologian can continue to supposedly talk about God in the public square, and presumptively talk to this same God on his/her own in their private square. But again, this seems problematic to me. Surely the theologian wants to be able to provide precise, cogent, somewhat coherent talk about God; and that this requires (I suppose) a modicum of dispassionate analysis and articulation. Yet, what if this vocation becomes all consuming; what if vocation becomes removed from evocation with the Lord whom they claim to speak for? This is always a concern for me, and I wonder if it is one for you too? That is, does it concern you that you might only be a wind-chime blowing in the wind?