Before… I didn’t care. It just wasn’t an issue, I wasn’t brought up in multi-race areas. But when I did, and even in a highly social setting I didn’t paste on smiles — I merely ignored the entire thing — most of those guys have been married before and could never interest another woman (this proven, not a catty comment).
My non-reaction was subtly noted and it was interesting to see how the weeks following sorted out. WOW! did I indeed have some of those hard-won experience moments. Not only myself, but my friends and immediate relatives also. All done behind my back and in private converstation.
Bob, isn’t it a wonderful sort of different satisfaction when they finally won’t approach you face to face anymore. It leaves the “uninitiated” scratching their heads and wondering why such “nice folks” are getting such treatment.
Let me preface the next quote by saying that I never compare myself with the intellect and knowledge and perfection of Jesus (God). But He had a situation somewhat similar. After He threw the merchants and moneychangers out of the temple, and healed a lot of people pronouncing that their sins were forgiven, the political, but highly religious minority party of His day, the Pharisees, and chief priests, and elders approached Him in the temple on another occasion and asked: “By what authority do you do you do these things and who gave you this authority to do these things.?”
Instead of answering directly He used the common practice of a learned man of those days and said: “I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John [the Baptist] was it from heaven? or of men? answer me.”
Here you have it! “And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet [of God] indeed. So they answered and said to Jesus, We cannot tell.” So Jesus refused to answer them. In front of a huge group of witnesses, who really did understand just what happened there.
All of this and the internet are making silence really deafening. The stakes are just as high because the PC gods wield the power of the sword.
ME:
Side Note, the coaching is above:
I would never compare myself to Christ as God because, contrary to the popular belief I fully understand, I am not clinically insane.
I might compare myself to Jesus the man if I had the guts to go up on a cross the way He did. The Catch-22 here is that, unlike Him, I would be in no position to talk about it afterwards.
But Jesus made it very, very clear that we must follow in his footsteps. That is what you are doing here and what I try to do.
Recent Comments