The best of times:the worst of times
April 17th 2007 23:52
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Charles Dickens served us well with his Tale of Two Cities, and his opening lines live on in our memories to-day and still serve us well.
Nightmares feature as a result of traumatic incidents and this tale from a missionary shows that no-one is exempt, even those of the cloth.
As a missionary in Columbus, Ohio, identified only as 1st daughter, this missionary describes her memories as nightmares. At the same time she describes so little to me which would indicate such a response but it was obviously that for her.
I conjured up massacres, cruelties, pagan rites and all sorts of things which would give me nightmares but hers seem to have been a sense of failing to do what she perceived as being required to do as a messenger of the Gospel, while at the same time needing to meet the daily needs of the already converted and a disappointment in failing to help a young woman who arrived with a great deal of religious zeal but departed three weeks later because she could not do what she felt a missionary should do.
Of course, as with most religions, this missionary has decided that that was truly God's will, so why describe it in nightmare terms. It seems odd to me, but apparently what appears as just a simple problem to most turns into a nightmare experience for the individual trying to accept it.
That is something to think about, isn't it?
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