by RollickHooper » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:45 pm
I'm putting this rant here because it doesn't warrant its own thread and really I shouldn't post until I've meditated on it some. But here I go--<br>There's a Jehovah's Witnesses lady who comes by the house every week to talk about the Bible with me, and I enjoy having the opportunity to talk about current events with her, to see how she reconciles it with passages from the Good Book. I flatter myself thinking she keeps coming back because she wants to hear what I have to say, because in my heart I feel that my relationship with the Creator doesn't come through affiliation with any church, it doesn't have a name and if it did it wouldn't be Christianity, and she knows this. I want to believe that underneath and behind all the talk, we genuinely like each other and enjoy each other's company--I'd hate to think I was wrong about that, and she's just doing what Jay-Dubs do, going door to door and preaching the gospel. Other Jehovah's Witnesses at other times have tried to convert me and quit trying, but this woman keeps coming back.<br>Because she's black, I tend to bait her on racial issues, I'm always quoting Martin Luther King to her, about civil disobedience and nonviolent protest, but she never loses her footing: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done. With tears in my eyes, I said, "Aren't you even a little bit pissed off at what's going on in Louisiana?" and she said,<br>"I know it seems worse because it's happening here, and not somewhere else, but this kind of thing--and much worse--is happening and has been happening all over the world for a long time. YOU want something to happen now, because it's happening now, and it's happening here."<br><br>She's right, you know-- <p></p><i></i>
