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"Help! Come quick!"
A man burst into my house. He was hysterical.
"What is it? What happened?" I replied.
Breathlessly the man explained, "There's a boy in the lake! He is drowning!"
We both rushed out of the house. The lake was only a short way off. I knew the lake well. It was a place my parents and I visited often when I was a child. I had spent many summers swimming there. I had not been there since the incident. I was 11 years old then.
When we got there I could see someone laying under the water on the bottom just a little pass the shore. I jumped in quickly pulling the boy from the lake. He was limp in my arms. There was no life in him. I ran to the house. When I got there my father came out to meet me. He looked furious.
"Put the boy back in the lake!", he demanded.
"Why!" I was confused.
Suddenly the boy in my arms began to twitch. My father became more adamant, "Put him back in the lake before he comes back to life!"
"But, why! He needs our help!" The boy started to groan and jerk. Suddenly I realized what my father was trying to tell me. I was horrified. I didn't recognize the boy at first. This was me! This was me when I was 11 years old. This was me before the incident at the lake. I must hurry. There is no time to spare. If he fully awakes and opens his eyes there will be no turning back. I must take the boy back to the lake and make sure he is dead.
Conclusion: This is an adaption from a dream I had almost 20 years ago. When we are baptized in Christ, the old man is dead, we should never go back to our old self to revive it. We are now new creations restored to God, made for His purposes. Do not dabble with the things you have left behind otherwise you might awaken the old man and the rebellion of that nature will be reborn greater than it was previously.Labels: macabre |
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posted by Brett @ 5:39 PM
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The crow tapped his beak on the farmer's head but the farmer didn't notice. All day long the farmer went about working his fields, feeding his cows, visiting the outhouse but the crow continued a rat-a-tat-tat. Soon a bald spot appeared in the thick gray hair; still no notice of the crow with its shiny black feathers. A sore developed. As you might imagine and find somewhat disgusting, eventually the flesh in that spot was completely pecked away. The crow was tapping against the farmer's hard bony skull. Well, the day had ended and the farmer went inside, ate some dinner and went straight to bed as was his custom. What happened next is a little disturbing and if you are given to a weak stomach you might find your self wishing you had stopped right here.
By morning the crow, standing on the farmer's forehead, had eventually and slowly chipped away at the farmer's skull and ate out his brains. How the farmer never felt the crow tapping on his head is beyond my understanding. If the farmer had come into town or visited your home, it would have been plain to you. You would have seen the crow right there and would have asked him why he had a crow on his head. Why did he not know of the rat-a-tat-tat against his skull? If you had a crow sitting on your head pecking away, you would have noticed, right?
Conclusion: Without the Shepard's voice speaking to us we are not able to see plainly the corruption in our lives. When we compare ourselves to our own standards we will not see our disobedience because it is blurred out in the lack of contrast. When we see our sin in comparison to a holy God we see very clearly how far we have strayed and how destructive our sin is.Labels: macabre |
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posted by Brett @ 12:22 PM
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The villager ran through the square yelling at the top of his lungs. He lunged passed a large stone well in the center of the square.
At one time all kinds of livestock, people and carriages came through this downtown market. They would stop here at the well to drink. Vendors put on dramatic flair to attract customers to their tables. Chickens scurried passed avoiding being trampled by the crowds, but no one's been here for months.
In fact the village was silent. Other than the occasional stray villager running through screaming about the end of the world or something, there was no one here. Today, however, something was more unusual about this villager than all the previous ones that came running hysterically down the street. This villager had no face. The front of his head looked like the back of his head but without hair. How could he be yelling? It would seem impossible having no face, but yet he was shrieking about the plight of the world, something about an erupting volcano and a monster with one eye eating people, or something like that.
Oh well, back to work. "Fresh Humus for sale! Anyone? Fresh Humus! How about you sir, without the face?
Conclusion: Matthew 24:38 (NIV) "38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark." Though the signs are all around us, the world and even sometimes ourselves are blind to the obvious signs of the end days and the need to have our hearts anchored in Christ our Savior.Labels: macabre |
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posted by Brett @ 11:43 PM
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| Dead Body Series |
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I would like to explain the purpose of the Dead Body Series. It is a group of very short stories that shares with the reader how dangerous and evil our corruptable nature really is. This nature of ours would ultimately lead to our own deaths. Because of God's mercy and active role in humanity, each of us is spared, again and again, from the destruction of our selfishness. This series demonstrates the extreme results of our nature without the existence of God's hand of mercy in our lives.
You could say it is like some of those old fables and tales you read to children that have some kind of moral lesson, warning the reader to be careful and do the right thing. I hope you enjoy them. Beware that you don't also share the same fates, of the poor souls, in the Dead Body Series!
The stories thus far:
The Frog
The MouseLabels: Dead Body Series, macabre |
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posted by Brett @ 1:32 PM
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| The Frog |
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The frog was admiring the colors in the sky, floating slowly in the pond. The evening sun, large and orange, was setting in a pink background. The water in the pond was slowly lapping against the body he was perched on.
This poor fisherman drifted along in isolation. No one has come looking for him yet. They may never come. This pond is but one of many hidden ponds in these lonely woods. Fishing line was here and there, wrapped around one leg and an arm. A soaked ball cap was lying in the weeds.
Earlier that morning the man came and was standing on his boat, quietly fishing, smoking his cigar, and enjoying the morning breeze.
If only the young man had not been so harsh, when the frog started singing to his mate, and thrown the rock so hard at him that he lost his balance, flailing desperately to keep from tipping the boat, but it was too late. He hit his head on the side of his boat and drowned.
From the Dead Body Series
Written in 2004Labels: Dead Body Series, macabre |
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posted by Brett @ 1:26 PM
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| The Mouse |
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The mouse ran along a beam of the old shack and stopped. He looked down. The old man had been dead for three days now. He was slumped over his desk. His head rested on the sheets of paper he had been writing on. There were a few sketches among the writings as well.
The mouse wondered whether anyone would find him or even know where the old man was. The aged writer would come to the old shack every spring to write his books and sketch out new ideas. For nearly 30 years this ritual took place.
If only the old man had given him the piece of cheese he was begging for, he would not have choked on it when he ate it himself.
From the Dead Body Series
Written in 2004
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posted by Brett @ 11:50 PM
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