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Lesson Learned
Here this, ye old men, and give ear. . . for it is cut off from your mouth . . .
---Joel 1:1, 5
I apologize for causing controversy.
Some days ago, I commented on a poem that used what I considered to be a pejoratively racist term, one that---historically---had been used abusively by the Bavarian housepainter and his band of merry thugs.
The response I have received from that specific incident has indicated that my comment was not received in the spirit in which it was intended. I apologize for my part in that exchange.
The use of one's screen name in titles and texts of posted poems is an abuse of the privilege of free expression . . . or so I believe. I have never done so, nor would ever do that going forward. I have been considering both a screen name change (yes, that continues to haunt me), as well as a truncation of certain of my poems, and perhaps this incident and the other party's remarks are actually being used by the Lord to direct my attention. After all, the Lord sent a plague of locusts to Israel, in Joel's time, to call that nation's attention back to the important things; and He used anticipation of the destruction of Jerusalem, under attack by the forces of Titus Vespasian, to direct the Christian community there to migrate to Pella in order to escape the destruction.
And, as our Regnant Lord told the Apostle Saint Paul, who (then still known as Saul) had just fallen from his high horse, it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks (Acts 9:5). Yes, Lord: as always, You Word is correct; the kicking here is hard, oh so difficult.
