Monday, February 27, 2006


Have we the right to fulfilment to the detriment of others?

Education, degree, articulate,confident, well off ............. feel they have nothing to learn from Vicky Pollard and her friends.

I remember, many times in my life, when I have seen such beautiful humans, from such backgrounds, shaking and sweating because they were due to come into contact with Vicky Pollard and her male and female friends. They were part of the team I was leading - commitment of faith and volunteer time. Yet - all their experience and education was coming to nothing as their body language became totally inadequate because they were entering a different culture. The body stopped functioning and also their emotions. They maybe holding down a responsible job in the City of London but - yesbutnobut ..........

I believe it is good for us to spend time with Vicky and her peers.
See - feel - sense the crowded homes - noisy living - tension and broken relationships = wisdom .............. yes broken differently than the shaking and sweating I described above.

Isn't it true that we all find it tough to 'love like we have never been hurt'?

I remember visiting a home where the family horse was lead through the front door to enable it to live in the back yard of the terraced house. The same house had most of it's floorboards missing because they needed to feed the fire in a harsh winter. " I remember one of the family - a young man - he wanted advice regarding a letter from the court.
"I can't read real writing Pip" he said.

There is a different kind of learning when you are brought up in such an environment - in such streets. A certain kind of wisdom is nurtured to help the beautiful humans to survive and more than that.

Money can buy comfort and a home in a community to enable us to retreat from such places.
Escape from violence - noise and Vicky Pollard.
Money takes us away from the rawness of life.
Balance.
Knowledge.
Wisdom.
Compassion.
Incarnation.
Wholeness.
Incarnation is about being eye to eye with Vicky - close enough to feel her spittle on your face - smell her breath and seeing the depth of her................ beyond behaviour .........

Why do I begin to weep when I get to this line of words?
It stops me thinking.
It blurs my vision.............. the tears .......




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