Does the above statement really reflect the thinking and feelings of the Elevator Girl? Or did she, in the *heat of the moment,* spit out clichés that only inadequately approximate her actual feelings? It is said language is a bridge, but it is a bridge that at the same time creates the chasm it bridges, and what lies under the bridge is lost. Let us hope this is truly the case with the Elevator Girl, else wise this young woman reminds us of nobody so much as the rich young ruler:
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. And he answered and said unto Him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
This young man had the opportunity to walk with God, and had eternal happiness in his grasp. . .yet he turned away, grieved, because he felt there was no fulfillment in life without earthly treasure. He trusted more in material things than in the words personally spoken to him by God Almighty. . .
If we take the rich young Elevator Girl's comments as the true expression of her soul, she has confessed her happiness depends on football money, for that is the only thing that has been taken from her. She still has the husband for whom she professes her love, and their daughter. Does she really believe their life, their happiness, can only be sustained through football money? Is she afraid without football to pacify her husband she will become just another girl from the hood, hers and her daughter's health and well-being dependent upon the neurotic whims of a ghetto thug?
The Elevator Girl says her husband has *worked his ass off* for his football position. We find that hard to believe of any professional athlete. These professional idlers have been pampered throughout their adolescence and early adulthood. In truth, it is the pamperers who have worked their asses off for the sports idlers, taking their classes for them, preparing their meals, hiding their excesses from public scrutiny. The idler, the footballer, only has to play games. He is not a coal miner. He does not understand genuine labor. He believes frittering away hours lifting weights or some such nonsense and then having some faggot give him a rub-down is *work.* Absurd!
Obviously, if we take the Elevator Girl's words as the truthful expression of her heart, her marriage will not stand, for it was built upon the sand of NFL dollars.
Let us hope she is just an inarticulate girl, angry and defensive, spitting out clichés in a knee-jerk reaction. If so, there is the hope when the sound and fury of the scandal is done with, there remains something of substance in her and her husband, and they can move on, move into real life, and discover their happiness can be sustained by a Higher Power than the NFL.
And this is what will bring Goddell down to be replaced by a war criminal in Condi Rice.
ReplyDeleteThe hypocrisy is high with nearly all social media lynching Rice. Guess they grew weary of defending a strong arm robber.
Lynching can be a good thing. Rice ought to be counseled by Mike Tyson, then he'd appreciate the gift of being brought low. Stripped of the lying vanities of the world, one can then approach the cross. It's a blessing from God to be shown to be lost. What a relief not to have to carry the burden of thinking oneself to be somebody. Hopefully Rice and his elevator girl will be stripped of their delusion of grandeur, that they are *victims.* There is only one victim: Christ.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever see that 2008 or 2009 documentary about Tyson? It's excellent. Tyson is a savant.
ReplyDeleteChrist as victim....I have trouble thinking that because He knowingly sacrificed Himself. I have the same trouble marking Judas as evil because it seems he was the only one amongst the group who had total faith that Jesus was The Christ. And with Judas came the sacrifice of Christ.
Was it a mistake? Yes, but one that was preordained by God....
As for the Rice family, I wish them peace. Christ was always the way. Hopefully that is clear to them now.
And hopefully I didn't just commit heresy.
Even though Christ submitted to the crucifixion, in obedience to the Father's will, He was still the victim, as was evident from His words on the cross: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
ReplyDeleteAs for Judas, whether his betrayal was preordained, or God simply knew his character, and had pre knowledge of how he would react in that situation, I don't know. I do believe Judas' suicide showed his lack of faith in Christ. He knew he made a mistake, but lacked the faith Jesus could forgive him, so he killed himself. This is the extreme form of the kind of repentance we see in the world today, where people sin, then say they are sorry, then they sin again, and say they are sorry, and then they sin again, and say they are sorry. . .
Judas didn't have to be sorry again after he killed himself. It's not like he kept on selling Jesus out unlike, say, Ray Rice who will likely participate in some kind of abuse in the future if only verbal.
ReplyDeleteHe'll be sorry again. That is unless he kills himself.