I like the example of Noah having both a overall goal and a (for him, perhaps) more practical goal. I guess in all things we have the overall goal of giving glory to God, loving him. I wonder how that might change the "more practical" goals of some a-spiritual (secular?) things that we do. Like organizing my closet. Or buying lunch in the student center. Would keeping a better eye on the overall goal change the WAY (i.e. the HOW of Kierkegaard) we go about it? Maybe this idea is more basic in just thinking about God when we do things.

This segues in to your questions about living as a priest (without all the baggage). One thing our resident gadfly and I have talked about is about keeping a Sabbath, a day where we don't do work. It seems like when I was growing up (uh-oh, Nathan's using a subjective example!) Sundays were more holy, and now they've degenerated into days where I do church and homework. There's no sense of rest like it seems like God intended there to be once a week.
As far as other priestly ways to live. . . I wonder if we would have more rituals . . . like praying before meals is both a ritual and a means for being in touch with God. What if everytime we entered our homes, we recited the Shemah . . . "Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." Without even thinking of other specific examples, I feel as though a more priestly life would have more meditation, more peace, more communion with God. What think you?

To the communion issue . . . I remember one time Highland St CofC (memphis) had the Lord's Supper (LS = communion = Eucharist = collection?) up front, and groups of people went up in sections where there were church members who served them the LS. It took a little bit longer than usual, but there was a connection when someone looked you in the eye and gave you the symbol of Christ's body and blood. It integrated the horizontal aspect of communion -- that of fellowshipping with other Christians -- with the vertical dimension -- that of being in the presence of God. The church gave a good response to the experiment/deviation . . . but the next week it was back to the men passing the trays. So on a more macro scale, I'd like to see something more like that develop.

On the micro scale, I think just to look up during the LS, to smile b/c God raised Christ from the dead, and to be more aware of others rather than zoning out would be a good way to start. I think the way we do it now is biblical but could be even better (did I successfully avoid railing-against-the-establishment? :-P )

mmk, that's enough for now . . . I read the Kierkegaard excerpt, so feel free to bring that up if you like.