He would get little sleep tonight. His thoughts were agitated. He was seething as he lay silently under the stars. The others lay scattered around the smoldering fire, Thomas in arm’s reach to his left, Andrew to his right, but he was as distant from them as the wan moon.
How nice for him. How nice for him to slow down and take his time while we have work to do. How does he think this little band of followers keeps going? Not once has he ever even acknowledged what I do to keep these morons fed. “Render unto Ceasar!” he says. “Consider the birds!” he says. Meanwhile I’m working myself dry to keep enough in the moneybag to keep us from starving. “I’m in no hurry,” he says. That’s just the problem, you idiot. People are suffering. Your people. Our people. And he talks about love. What does he know about love? What does he know about suffering? Yeah, let’s all just love one another. We’ll make a nice little family where we sit around and pat each other on the back and just loooove one another. Meanwhile there are people starving. Meanwhile there are people being crucified for speaking out against this government. Yes, I’ll just drop everything and make sure little Peter’s feelings aren’t hurt while a family goes hungry tonight. I’ll go have a little fellowship and get to know little Matthias while Roman soldiers beat a man to an inch of his life just for being a Jew. “Love one another.” God, what an idiot. He has no idea what love is. He has no idea about the real world.
He would get very little sleep tonight. There was just too much to think about.
How nice for him. How nice for him to slow down and take his time while we have work to do. How does he think this little band of followers keeps going? Not once has he ever even acknowledged what I do to keep these morons fed. “Render unto Ceasar!” he says. “Consider the birds!” he says. Meanwhile I’m working myself dry to keep enough in the moneybag to keep us from starving. “I’m in no hurry,” he says. That’s just the problem, you idiot. People are suffering. Your people. Our people. And he talks about love. What does he know about love? What does he know about suffering? Yeah, let’s all just love one another. We’ll make a nice little family where we sit around and pat each other on the back and just loooove one another. Meanwhile there are people starving. Meanwhile there are people being crucified for speaking out against this government. Yes, I’ll just drop everything and make sure little Peter’s feelings aren’t hurt while a family goes hungry tonight. I’ll go have a little fellowship and get to know little Matthias while Roman soldiers beat a man to an inch of his life just for being a Jew. “Love one another.” God, what an idiot. He has no idea what love is. He has no idea about the real world.
He would get very little sleep tonight. There was just too much to think about.
1 comment:
Hey, good stuff. Goes well with the previous.
I can't wait to have some 'Bro Time' with you again, in the real world.
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