Aagghhhh!!! Department store elves! They're everywhere!
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Aagghhhh!!! Department store elves! They're everywhere!
Here are some Elves
Here are more Elves. These are Elves with spears and swords. They have been learning to use them for several thousand years. They are very good by now.
This Elf does not like the way you are insulting his people....
Hey! I was a social worker right out of college (a long, long time ago...). This was the early 80s. I didn't work with any men refuges, but I did work with a woman whose husband was still in prison in Vietnam. She was here with the children and was (briefly) on AFDC. I can't remember her background exactly, (my brain gets fuzzy). But I think she was in the medical profession. Maybe even a doctor but she couldn't practice here. I forget the details, but I do remember she was a lot smarter and a lot more educated than this humble dwarf.
She seemed embarrassed to be on assistance.
One of the things our speaker mentioned this morning was that his witch doctor "friends" put a "curse" on him that he would never have a son. Well, the "curse" was broken some years ago (after four daughters). But what struck me about that story was not so much that the curse was broken as it was the cultural reference. The way he put it "we don't have social security or welfare, etc. so you depend on your son to take care of you..."
And we Americans think we're the advanced culture...
But see Jen, that's the wonderful part as well. If (more likely when) I screw up tomorrow, well it's already been taken care of. (you're a Calvinist, you should know that!)
You should just tell them that's what they get for living in California instead of Oklahoma...
I (emphatically) don't wish to start a religious discussion here, but that sounds almost like a license to sin?
My apologies if I'm saying the wrong thing.
Oh yeah....the girlie armor guy....he's not even a full elf.
Common?
Yeah....if he were a full elf he'd be wearing real pointy elf shoes.
Notice there are no half-dwarves running around?
Would you know one if you saw one?
Humidity from the river makes his hair frizz.
I understand Jen. I often feel much the same. But don't dwell there (you already know that).
Dwell here:
Lamentations 3:22-23
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
No Sam, I don't want to get into a religious discussion here in The Hobbit Hole either. There are places for that (and I'd rather face the Mines of Moria than return to the FR "religion" threads)
I'm just offering a bit of friendly encouagement to Jen.
But to answer your question (and I'd be happy to continue in another arena if you'd like), it's not a license to sin. But it's knowing that our sin, all of it, is taken care of. It's knowing the debt is paid in full. We simply believe that those who know Christ do not want to sin (thus Jen wanting to hide away). But we also know that on this side of eternity, we're not perfect. We're still human, still fallible.
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