Stephen King on Recovery

I'm reading the Dark Tower series right now, and am at the beginning of the third volume. As I was reading, this paragraph hit me like a ton of bricks:

From The Waste Lands by Stephen King, p.25,

He knew the guilty feelings were stupid and pointless, be he also knew he felt more comfortable doing this work when Roland and Susannah were out of camp. Old habits, it seemed, sometimes died hard. Beating heroin was child's play compared to beating your childhood.

It is amazing how our childhood stays with us, and all the bad memories haunt us. I didn't even have a bad childhood--my parents weren't addicts and they weren't abusive. The worst thing was that we had to lie to our grandmother all the time about my mom working outside of the home. My parents were terrified of my grandmother's words and judgement so they hid the fact that my mom worked. I would have to say that that fear has been transferred to me. My grandmother has been dead for many years, but that secrecy and fear is very much alive.

Would Jesus drop an "F"-bomb?

One of my favorite bloggers is a Baptist preacher down in Texas who has a website called RealLivePreacher.com. I like him because he has written about some of the same struggles I have had, like depression, and he writes in a non-pretentious, gritty style. He doesn't waste words. One of my recent favorites was an entry called A Religion of Denial. He ends with the sentence, "And one day he will have to cough the fucker up."

Man, there is power in that sentence. There was a lot of power in the whole piece, but the last sentence put the exclamation point on it.

You don't often hear Baptist preachers use the "f-word"--actually he's the only one I ever heard use it. I've heard priests (Catholic and Orthodox) use it before, but when they've used it, it has always seemed appropriate--although I was shocked the first time. I remember a priest when I was getting too analytical telling me I was, "mind fucking the thing to death." He got the point across that I was stuck and needed to move on.

Of course, on RLP's (Real Live Preacher) blog, there were comments about how his language was inappropriate and they tried to lay on him some of the WWJD? guilt trip shit on him. He held his ground and some of us defended him--although he really didn't need it.

So would Jesus drop an "F-Bomb"? Actually, I can imagine him doing it as he turns over the money changers tables or giving his seven woes: "You Pharisees are a bunch of fucking white washed tombs...". That is a little punchier and to the point than, "Thou art... blah, blah, blah."

Some credit for this goes to andytrevathan who wrote in her profile of her hobbies: "Cursing (it is an art form.)"