jethro
02-29-2008, 01:01 AM
I was browsing the New Yorker -poetry/books-review and
Take My Bread-by Sara Miles captured me immediately, so I will get the book. I was born way back in 1932 in the Highlands of Scotland, my mother
was a Methodist, and had I never read the scriptures I would have wanted
what she had, this joyful, beautiful woman, who loved the Lord, was an elder of the Church, who read her bible daily and taught me its wisdom but most of all the transforming power of its author! I went down with Rheumatic Fever/St Vitas Dance/Bronchities at the age of 8 and never got
up out of the bed in the kitchen,under the stairs,for 3 years! I saw 12 seasons come and go from an optic window, I also saw a beautiful woman
on her knees night after night by the light of a dying peat fire, tear soaked cheeks, her coal black hair streaming her back to her waist like a waterfall.
'LORD jESUS CHRIST,'SHE PLEADED, 'PLEASE.PLEASE IF ITS THY WILL MAKE
MY BOY WHOLE, AND USE HIM WHAT WAY YOU WILL FOR YOUR GLORY'
Well, here I am at 76 years old! Were I to even give you a few of the stories
on my journey you would see something absolutely awesome. I left home
at 15 years old went to sea as deck boy apprentice sailed to Australia.
In short, I travelled to nearly every country on this tiny globe, did over
50 fields of employment and have published my poems in major journals and
news papers here and internationally. Spent two years down and out on the park benches and streets of Auckland. Married a young beautiful wife from Taiwan and we have a 4 year old beautiful boy who has Autism/Asperges syndrome. What I really wanted to say, on the 8
February 2007 having fought cancer/prostate/bladder and recently just
come from an emergency heart ward, with a problem.-I borrowed some
books from a church library-used books- and sadly one of them was in a box
i sold to a christian second hand book shop, they called the police and I was
charged with theft! My wife collapsed with a nervous breakdown and our little boy got worse. BROTHER/SISTERS on reading this, I walked away from
the Christian God of my mother, and became an atheist overnight! Amen
MANY KIND THOUGHT TO ALL OF YOU, i WAS MADE WHOLE! BUT GLORYIFY
gOD, ....I AM SORRY MUM.
JETHRO
Take My Bread-by Sara Miles captured me immediately, so I will get the book. I was born way back in 1932 in the Highlands of Scotland, my mother
was a Methodist, and had I never read the scriptures I would have wanted
what she had, this joyful, beautiful woman, who loved the Lord, was an elder of the Church, who read her bible daily and taught me its wisdom but most of all the transforming power of its author! I went down with Rheumatic Fever/St Vitas Dance/Bronchities at the age of 8 and never got
up out of the bed in the kitchen,under the stairs,for 3 years! I saw 12 seasons come and go from an optic window, I also saw a beautiful woman
on her knees night after night by the light of a dying peat fire, tear soaked cheeks, her coal black hair streaming her back to her waist like a waterfall.
'LORD jESUS CHRIST,'SHE PLEADED, 'PLEASE.PLEASE IF ITS THY WILL MAKE
MY BOY WHOLE, AND USE HIM WHAT WAY YOU WILL FOR YOUR GLORY'
Well, here I am at 76 years old! Were I to even give you a few of the stories
on my journey you would see something absolutely awesome. I left home
at 15 years old went to sea as deck boy apprentice sailed to Australia.
In short, I travelled to nearly every country on this tiny globe, did over
50 fields of employment and have published my poems in major journals and
news papers here and internationally. Spent two years down and out on the park benches and streets of Auckland. Married a young beautiful wife from Taiwan and we have a 4 year old beautiful boy who has Autism/Asperges syndrome. What I really wanted to say, on the 8
February 2007 having fought cancer/prostate/bladder and recently just
come from an emergency heart ward, with a problem.-I borrowed some
books from a church library-used books- and sadly one of them was in a box
i sold to a christian second hand book shop, they called the police and I was
charged with theft! My wife collapsed with a nervous breakdown and our little boy got worse. BROTHER/SISTERS on reading this, I walked away from
the Christian God of my mother, and became an atheist overnight! Amen
MANY KIND THOUGHT TO ALL OF YOU, i WAS MADE WHOLE! BUT GLORYIFY
gOD, ....I AM SORRY MUM.
JETHRO