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"I attended a church in the suburbs and finally found a men's gathering where they talked about hunting and eating wild game, and I would sit there feeling like an idiot, pretending to be amused by stories about shooting deer, and how somebody's buddy rushed into a cave and killed a bear while it was sleeping. The truth is I was never amused. I wasn't even interested. And even though my best friend Roy and I went fishing a great deal when I was a kid, I was never that much into it. For me fishing was just something to do with a friend. I never went hunting, either, and I was not groomed for sports. I liked war movies some, but I liked human drama movies more, movies like The Breakfast Club or The Karate Kid - Movies where geeks prevailed against great social odds so they could date cheerleaders. But when all the football analogies started up at the men's group, and all the talk was about how, in our spiritual lives, we are like characters in the latest bloodfest movie, except we only get to kill people metaphorically, I just wasn't feeling it. So, I continued wondering if I was one of the guys, wondering if I was really a man. I wondered why they couldn't speak to somebody on my level. I thought, for example: Why not have a men's meeting where we talked about how Duckie got to kiss Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, and how someday we were all going to kiss Molly Ringwald, metaphorically?"
-From To Own a Dragon, By Donald "Jesus" Miller
If I didn't know that was from a book , I couldv'e sworn I wrote it.
That is exactly how I feel, all the time. To a tee. Nothing can put it into words better if I tried.
-From To Own a Dragon, By Donald "Jesus" Miller
If I didn't know that was from a book , I couldv'e sworn I wrote it.
That is exactly how I feel, all the time. To a tee. Nothing can put it into words better if I tried.