An Open Letter To Sable Chicken
Dear Sable Chicken.
I want you to know that I don't hate you. I don't know you. Seriously, I know nothing about you. Other than you go by Sable Chicken and you are a woman.
It is like if I walked into Disneyland and there you were taking pictures with Mickey and his friends. You know...Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto...do you get what I am saying?
You are like a person in a costume hiding your real identity from people. You are just a character to me. Fantasy. Therefore, I feel like I can say whatever I want. I apologize for that.
Though, I am truly worried that you believe the things you are saying. I AM concerned for you. You have chosen a life, "a world that has been pulled over our eyes to blind us from the truth." Are you able to step back and see life from a non-believers eyes?
I am really concerned for SCP like you. SCP who just can't see the bigger picture (I say "bigger" because I don't even know how big it really is). I just wonder if you can or are willing to see what I see. God's love and grace flow through my veins. But the things I have read that you have written ... they get my blood boiling!
I do care for you. I really do. We just do not understand each other. You probably think quite poorly of me. I would. So I want to invite you to ask me whatever you want. As long as I can ask questions back. Maybe we can both step out of our comfort zones and learn something.
Sincerely,
Josh Sager
P.S. I promise to not use "foul" language.
posted by Joshua Sager at
9:21 PM
3 Comments:
I'm sorry that my name sets you off. I don't like Disney, never have. I don't want to use my own name, I think that is wise for me. If I did, I would be just Plain Jane, who would remember me on the internet. I am an artist, so my real name has some value. I am a mother of a 10 year old girl. My husband is an atheist, but I don't like to talk about that very much. I don't talk about God at all with him. My friends are from all differant beliefs, and I have had to in the last year stay away from them. And use this time to understand the Word of God (Bible). Plus I don't want to loss there friendship and make their "blood boil" if you know what I mean. I have not made any friends at the Church yet, (my fault) I don't have any real Christian friends outside of my family.
I thought I was saved when I was 6 years old. I fell away from God, became adulterous to God. Although I thought of myself as a Christian, I would avoid bringing up my faith and I would never bring up Jesus. I was lost and I asked God for a sign, in hopes that he would show himself to me. I got the sign of Jonah. I really thought that God was going to kill me right there. With in a 2 weeks God stripped me of everything, and left me naked. Then everything was put back in place and I was told to not talk about it by my closest friend. But God did give me a gift out of this, I never read the Bible before, now I can't get enough. It is a hunger I can't explain.
So tell me why I make your blood boil?
It is not your name that sets me off, it is you.
I believe you live in a fairy tale. Where Jesus is your little buddy that you want everyone to meet him so you can have this great big group hug. I believe that you think that following Christ is about feeling good.
I think you are blind but not willing to accept it.
And then when called out, you will hide behind Christs' skirt.
Josh you are right, I do live in a little bit of a fairy tale world, I always have. It is kind of who I am. I think it is the artist in me. It is ok to feel a little bit of that magic in your life.
I am not very brave, but I want to be. Sometimes Christ is all I do have to hang on to. I just came out of the closet as a Christian a little over a year ago. And this whole time I have had to be so cool, so grounded about my faith. My sanity was on the line. I have a young daughter she needs me to be there for her. If it was not for her, I might have choose to live under a bridge with some toothless guy singings songs about Jesus on his guitar.
If I seem over the top to you it is because of things that I must deal with. I know that I see things very different from the rest of the world.
Hideing behind Christ is the safest place for me.
When it comes to being blind, well, I don't have the answers to everything. I know that things are a bit more black and white for me now then before, But I don't feel like I have lost the ability to see the whole rainbow.
You and me are coming from completely different places.
I guess that is the cool thing about the internet.
So my question to you is what's your Catch 22 ?
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