Chris' Christian Blog

June 23, 2020

Prompt: Todays star is: bobturn

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The specimen the introduction, which says "Sometimes the loneliest place is in a crowd."

Do you get lonely in crowds? Why or why not?

I woke up this morning with a nose bleed. I take a blood thinner and will take it the rest of my life so bleeding can be a tricky situation for me. That is why the prompt was late.

The prompt says that sometimes the loneliest place is in a crowd. It asks if I have ever been lonely in a crowd. The answer is yes. Due to difficulties growing up I never really learned to attach. I learned later on that attachment and friendship mean making oneself vulnerable but when I was younger I was unwilling to do that. I never had the friends I longed for as a young adult because I was afraid to let go of past hardships. I was always afraid of getting hurt. Being a friend means taking chances and learning to trust and forgive. Those lessons came hard for me.

Prompt: Use these words in your blog entry: Rose, Honeysucle, pink, wisdom, peace.

My dad used to talk about a woman named Honeysuckle Rose. I never did figure out if Rose was her name and he just called her Honeysuckle or what the connection was. At times she came across as bit of wisdom he was passing along. She sure was a colorful woman. I don't know if pink was one of those colors or not.

"Prompt: Do you think a novel influences change in society? Do you think Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird,or any other novel you know of ever achieved such a change?"

I don't know that novels influence any change, but I do know the talking heads on the television carry a lot of weight and influence with people. I have watched more than one situation where the talking heads have escalated things. For example the recent protests have been media influenced. I would just about guess that half the people protesting did not even know what they were protesting about. The other half were mainly stirred up because the talking heads told them they should be. People are followers when what we need are leaders. We need leaders who will stand up for godly values.