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| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Sunday, June 20, 2004, 12:39:00 PM | permalink |
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Kel is now in his early 30s & he used to be the "shepherd", or leader, of the Christian youth church cell group which I used to attend afew years back. On first appearances, Kel may appear to be cheerful, jocular, wacky even. But Kel being Kel, he was always dead serious when it came down to important issues. And of course, him being my ex-shepherd, these were mostly spiritual. The best way to illustrate his serious side is through this poignant tale recounted by another church member, Vince. A couple of years back, Kel, Vince & afew other church members spent afew days living together in a house to fast, pray & reflect. In addition to not having any food at all, this also meant that for those few days, its was 24 hours of seeing each others' faces. And in situations like these people tend to reveal a little more of their true character. Vince was walking about aimlessly on one of those nights. Most of the other people were either sleeping, doing their quiet time (reading the Bible/praying), or plain relaxing. When Vince went past Kel's sleeping room however, he noticed Kel sitting motionlessly. Kel's glasses were on the table, his eyes were bloodshot and tears were constantly welling up in them. Those eyes stared at a piece of scrap paper on the table. On it was name after name after name... at least a dozen over names were neatly listed, some were blotted by teardrops. Vince: "... Hey. Are you OK? What's the list of names for?"Vince called this the "Shepherd & his Lost Sheep" story. I'm not sure whether it was meant to be funny or not, I don't think its funny; but I agree with the title. After church finished today, I was approached by Kel. After the "HEY!!!"s & "whazzzup!!!"s Kel & me had a hearty chat to catch up on how each other's been doing. On the outside, he does appear carefree. |
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