A Lifetime of Holy Relationship for Thursday, January 6, 2011

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

A Short Story (allegory) Con't.

Con't My screening questions revealed that she wondered about obsessive worrying because her partner has brought home the new worry zapper and she had refused to try it. “He accused me of being addicted to worry,” she said with a tone of righteous indignation. “Are you?”, I inquired. There was a long pause. “Well, I do worry a lot,” she said sheepishly. “Would you give it up, if you knew how?” I inquired. Another long pause..... “I think so,” she finally confessed. “Well then, perhaps we aught... Sign in to see full entry.

Short Story (Con't) (An Allegory)

(Con't from): So, one day he brings home a brand new Worry Zapper. His expectation was that she would be thrilled to hear that there existed a gadget that could instantaneously zap a worry. In fact, he was surprised by the intensity of her resistance. “Could it be?”, he wondered, that she wants her worries... is addicted to them?” He was wise enough to say nothing. What he encountered next reminded him of trying to coax his daughter to eat when she was three. “Comon”, he pleaded just try a... Sign in to see full entry.

A Short Story

A Short Story He had always been a gadget guru; His gadget collecting was born of this and not (as some had presumed)vice versa. She had always been a worry collector. She even curated a museum of past and possible future worries, and she, like tens of thousands of others, still sought the very rare 'present worry'. There were some who even believed that 'present worries' were an artifice, a myth created to defend the possession of past and future worries. Our story is an adventure born in their... Sign in to see full entry.

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