1st and Follow-up Response to CARDevotional Absentees

 

    In a clear example why we should not be taken hostage by our emotions, and instead calmly reflect on the circumstances, I present my initial, published response to the low attendance at my CARDevotional. Clearly not the message I intended to convey, it will stay as an embarrassment to my indulgence in ways of my lower nature.  

 

Quoted verbatim :

March 29th. Am I upset that but for two of my friends, each of my 'loyal supporters' decided that they simply didn't feel like coming to our family's 3rd CARDevotional? Let me say this unequivocally, lest no variation or vacillation be interpreted later. You all are no longer welcome at our card devotionals. Not just for one month, or two, or three, but ever. Seriously. Don't ask, don't beg, and don't apologize--just stay home and find something else to do because you sure aren't welcome here. Period.

 

Later I amended my response:

   March 30th. Yes I was upset that only two of my loyal friends showed up for my CARDevotional, and I sincerely questioned their collective commitment to their pledges of attendance, their general support of my initiative, and even their weighty designation as friends. However, with time, and a protracted conversation with the ever-pacifying, ever-mollifying, and ever-conciliating Elhám, it is apparent that my final solution was woefully off-target in its approach, indiscriminately broad in its scope, and and fatally flawed in its design.
          While the format of CARDevotionals will undoubtedly change (yet mercifully eschewing the draconian exclusion of recent absentees) it aims to emerge as a more robust and efficient mechanism for connecting people with the Word of God, from the mouthpieces of major, world-wide religions, and entertaining them with games and activities awash in the revitalizing spirit of mutual goodwill, genuine friendship, and playful competition.  

 

"I got much love for my Ottawa peeps; I just gotta keep working on lovin' myself." -Martin