Jonathots Daily Blog
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XI.
I confess so I can heal.
If I deny, I remain sick.
She was my friend, benefactor and producer of my first national album release.
After we finished the record, she bought me a copy of the Urantia book.
She loved the book.
She loved me.
I assume her goal was to join her loves together in a connection.
The book didn’t work for me. I read some of it and found most of the parts distasteful to both my spiritual side and my human understanding.
I didn’t tell her.
Perhaps I did not want to hurt her feelings, seem ungrateful or lose my meal ticket and helper. It was probably all of the above.
She decided to start having readings of the book at her house on Thursday nights. I, of course, was invited and felt compelled to go.
There were about 25 people there from the music industry–professors from the Vanderbilt University and all sorts of Nashville, Tennessee entrepreneurs.
I joined in to the discussions, keeping my sentiments beneath the surface.
Then one week, friends of ours from Indiana came into town. I thought it would be a great boost to their experience to go meet my mentor and all these talented folks who gathered for the Thursday night Urantia reading.
I didn’t think it through.
My Hoosier buddies were fundamentalist Christians, and as soon as they heard some of the ideas from the book, they felt compelled to object–aloud.
My dear lady friend who had been so generous to me was greatly offended by their interruption.
I was trapped.
Was I going to disavow my friends from Indiana, continuing to be dishonest about my own feelings? Or was I going to make a stand in this lovely lady’s house against her beloved book?
I made the stand. It created a rift.
I left early. My objecting companions patted me on the back for my courage.
Things were never the same again with my Urantia friend.
I felt self-righteous–but it did not take too long for me to realize what an ass I had been.
If I had been forthcoming with her when she gave me the book and I reviewed it, telling her then that it was unnecessary for my journey, things would have been fine.
But because I waited for an unfortunate moment to make my feelings known, shocking her completely…well, the damage was permanent.
I ended up wrong, saying something I believed was right.
She has since passed on, but today I wanted her and you to know that I was erred.
Because spiritual revelation is useless if it doesn’t increase human interaction and compassion.
I have learned to be forthcoming.
At times it may seem blunt but it is better than misleading those who love you … under the guise of trying to keep peace.
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