Their front doors are solid and beautiful. Their houses have parties. Their cars are like large shiny jewels. Their jobs have more partying. It’s like they’re on a large party boat eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, like 1929 before the stock market crash.
They graduated Dumbedown University, where crooked politicians speak at their graduation ceremonies. They have those same pols over for dinner, with liars, cheaters and killers, and teachers, lawyers and doctors, no housewives, husbands or plumbers.
I’m outside but it’s alright. I prefer to be alone, and it’s only a little chilly as I look at the ice-cold world on the night of the Titanic from dry land. And I know and they don’t know the life of the party.
Party spirits feed their faces while I’m with those who are satisfied with very little because little is a lot in our economy. I had my last wild party years ago. Thanks for breaking down my door, Lord. Now, I have a headache.
There’s only one good party, okay. No, it’s not okay but I’ll live with it for a while. You’ll be back.
“They are lifted up for a little while, but they are not,” Job says. “And they are brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and wither like the heads of ears of grain.” I know more about their world than they do. Is that alright? Am I really a Christian? Even though I close my eyes to sin they will often look there again. The only good in me was put there by God.
The Christian wannabes say God knocks at the door of our hearts. They say he waits outside until we let him in. I imagine they think he’s weakly pleading to be let into their rich homes, which are filled with many things, but many evil things. No, God is not asking, “Please let me enter your heart.” He can do anything. It’s pathetic and ignorant to claim God knocks on the door of our hearts asking us if we will let him in. It says a lot about Christian wannabes. And though they attend large churches, that doesn’t mean much.
I’m having Thanksgiving dinner with two True Believers, not a big party, but it’s all I need.
May you and your loved ones have a happy Thanksgiving.