Can We Understand?

Can We Understand?


He would always

Raise eyebrows

Turn heads

Stop conversations

That's what he wanted

In his late middle-age

Long of jaw and thin

Years hard labour

Time clocks

Hurried orders

Unrecognized

A human resource.



But he had found a way

Laughing to himself

It was odd

Folks balked at it

But now space always

Opened up for him

In a crowd.

A new pain

Also arrives

Bathed in bitterness

Inner revulsion

From the silent stares evoked.



Nevertheless

Every weekend

He dons women's dresses

Shoes, coat, gloves.

And heads

For public places.





Note: I saw such a one two weeks ago at a fast-food restaurant. Everything inside me twisted in awkwardness. He got into his SUV and drove away.

It is mental illness...you observed(a demon), where did the suv go and whom did he chance encounter, your comprehension ended there with a question mark and therein "lies" the flaw in your most eloquent messages?
Perhaps even amongst the very Men's group you attend.
Jesus can heal anyone.
Something Michael "rhyma rhyma" once said to me over the phone that a priest he approached while out walking lost in thought said to him concerning a heart breaking matter he'd reached the end of his rope on.
"My Son, just because you need to walk away, it does not mean that Jesus will"

"But...but are we not to imitate Christ?"

"Yes, that is our journey but we are not Christ..and even though we walk away, He does not."

Glory bumps for sure...and the source of wisdom very clear!

The rousing song says "God is God, and I am not".

But I squint and keep on looking still, Anthony.

Certainly you are not telling me that God's covenant promises come like a puppy-dog response on demand. UH..Uh not the Sovereign One and His sovereign Plan.

Doug

When we are in the "habit" of twisting our necks to see the wrecks on the shoulder of life's roads, we lose sight of what is looming right in front of our noses.
Periphreal is important and needed, but not to a degree that takes your eyes completely off of the road ahead of you. One wreck begets another. Sometimes the spectacle of flashing lights is on the opposite side of the road heading in the opposite direction.


BTW...why not take a moment to "introduce yourself", you seem to have jumped right in without the common courtesy of a proper introduction (oversight?).

Matthew 23:6
"They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues"

In your own words Doug Blair:

"Friend On Eagle's Wings: Something got missed and I knew it. But thanks anyway for the reply.

You know, I have spent time on Christian Forums. Another site. I have been disappointed there with the plague of "oneupsmanship". When I posted my concern under the title "Something Smells Badly at Christian Forums", I got an official warning from administrration. Almost as if they enjoyed the constant fray.
I am tired, really tired of the competitive, showy tendencies in Evangelical Christendom.

I find CCW to be a refreshing opportunity where one can still edify and be edified. Thanks...Doug"

I don't quite understand what your idea of "refreshing" is.
Refreshing for whom?

OEW:

Read again the short fiction on Barrenness.

As for personal introductions, go to the following blog page (all posted previously here on CCW)

http://justhappeneduponthis.wordpress.com/relinquish-now/

And scroll down to My Story of Rescue.

Also my entries in the last week on the Memoirs page.

Doug Blair