Don’t blame the serpent | A Confession
by Elouise
Don’t blame the serpent
Don’t blame Eve
Don’t even blame the Devil
They didn’t make me do it
I lust after power
be it ever so humble
I lust for My Perfect World
My Perfect Neighborhood
My Perfect Family
My Perfect President
I carry bad seed inside
a heart driven by desire
for my way or the highway
A lethal epidemic
of dissatisfaction raised
to the Nth Degree by
Presidential, Global and Religious Politics
Do I want to be a Happy Subject?
No. I want to be God
or at least Queen for a Day
On second thought
let’s make that Forever
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This morning I read several reviews of this past year. Dismal reading for the most part, couched in statistics and snippets of so-called ‘newsworthy’ events, attitudes and opinions based on unidentified polls.
As a member of the human race I found myself talking back to the reviews. ‘That’s not about me! That’s about all of Them! I would never ever think or act like that.’
Which led to the words above.
© Elouise Renich Fraser, Christmas Eve, 24 December 2015
Telling the Truth 
I think that any of us could write that poem at one time or another, or every day… 🙂 😦 😐
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I fear you are sadly correct. Thanks, Debbie.
Elouise
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Well I certainly don’t want to be king for a day or even a moment. In my tiny world I feel that I am to blame for all the bad stuff anyway. So if I were king for a day that would open up another box of things to be blamed for.
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Dear John, I wish and pray for you a Christmas without self-blame. Blame isn’t the same as owning up to our limited (not limitless) responsibility in the current mess, whatever it is. That means owning up to the little bit we can do differently next time. No one person or group of persons can possibly bear all the blame for what we experience today. There’s an irrationality to evil that is far beyond our power to identify or resolve. Christmas offers me another opportunity to see the truth about myself and be accepted by God–with all my self-blame and desire to ‘play God’ included in the package! It’s part of the gift I give the Christ-child, otherwise known as God’s son incarnate in human form. I think of the Christina Rossetti lines: What can I give him, poor as I am? ….give my heart! So here’s to a hearty, heartfelt and heart-giving Christmas for you and yours!
Elouise
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Elouise,
We did sin and salvation as the theme for my Systematic Theology course with you. I had been counseled by other students that I would earn my credits (not units yet) when taking a class with you. I remember you teaching that there is something unexplainable and ununderstandable and diabolical (my words and description of your teaching) about sin. Indeed, the buck does stop with each of us. We can’t export the blame. Praise God we have a Savior who meets us where we are and takes us to better places. I still remember your course and your gracious and insightful comments which you wrote on my sin and salvation paper. To each of us is born this day in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord.Thank God for salvation. God is not through with us yet! Thanks for your blog. Have a blessed Christmas!
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Oh, John. Thanks for this memory and reminder of the truth. God isn’t through with us or this old world yet! Just so I’m willing to let God take the lead, and just so I’m willing to follow the lead of Jesus, our Savior who shows us how to do what we were made to do. I’m so glad to have this years-later contact with you. Some things in my past make me want to go back there–but not quite! Reading papers such as yours is one of those happy memories. I pray God will meet you where you are this day and take you to wherever God wants to go with you.
Elouise
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