For the Love of Us All

SEPTEMBER 24^th, 2012

LINGERING SINS-GOSSIP

There once was a woman

With a physical handicap

She is still the same now

As she was twelve years ago

What about our sins

Are our sins

The same today

As they were 12 years ago

No one

Stays the same

Are we improving

Or are we regressing

Once

There was a woman

Who gossiped

When she went to confession

The Catholic priest

Told her to go to the market place

And buy a chicken

What an easy penance

She thought

Then the Catholic priest

Told her 

To pluck the chicken

And spread the feathers everywhere

Strange-she thought

But she did this too

Then the priest told her

To go and gather the feathers

And put them

Back on the chicken

“I can’t do that Father,” she said

“The feathers are everywhere”

“Exactly,” the priest said

“This is what happens

When you talk about someone”

What about my lingering sins

What about

Your lingering sins

Where are we

In relationship

To where we were

Twelve years ago

ARE WE IMPROVING

Robert P. Wallman

5-10-10

Ps       *Based on the teaching of Father Leo Clifford

“A GOSSIP betrays a confidence

But a trustworthy man keeps a secret”                                                   Proverbs 11:13

“For I am afraid that when I come

I may not find you as I want you

And you may not find me as you

Want me to be

I fear that there may be quarreling,

Jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions,

Slander, GOSSIP, arrogance, and disorder”                                          2 Corinthians 12:20

“A perverse man stirs up dissension

And a GOSSIP separates close friends”                                         Proverbs 16:28