faith: writing strong. in person? not so much

I had a sort of writer-to-writer moment with the Apostle Paul and had to share! Here's the quote from 1 Corinthians 10: 

I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech is of no account." (10:9...)

Oh yeah, I'm with you! The best thing I do is write. That's it. Then someone invites me to speak and I know they've already had the best of me because they've read my writing. Believe me, I've shown all my cards. It's a little disconcerting. I'm not astonishingly beautiful or particularly eloquent. "Bodily presence weak?" Yeah, I can see it said of me. Still, I go and enjoy it. I like meeting readers. I feel grateful that someone asked. So I do my best to speak, even though there's a reason why I write and rewrite and rewrite (and why I prefer email to phone calls).  

Paul goes on:

Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.

Now that's deep. I'd like that to be true of me too.