Seeing the Light

3 June, 2008

here is a story I just wrote today, hope you guys enjoy it.

I spent my life being told that everything I did was for god, some supreme being who would honour me one day for all I did for him. I read the word that he had written with the hand of man and followed its principals. I learnt that the word had been written cryptically for our lord was a complex being and explained things in complex ways.
What was certain despite all the confusion and interpretations of the Bible was that Sinners had to be saved and if they would not be saved they must be punished.
I left the place of my birth for the first time when I was 18 years old, a young man capable of doing the hard work the lord had in store for me. I left with nothing but a bible in my hand and communion to hand out to the first village on my journey. I walked a long road on my journey, seeing the wonders of the lord’s creation on my way. I saw flowers of exquisite beauty bloom and turn towards the light for sustenance and energy, I found I could not do the same and took it for a sign, we, our Lord’s greatest creation, had grown incapable of looking into the light for fear of being blinded. We had become unworthy. I became determined to become worthy, to be able to look into the light without being blinded.
Along my Journey I visited many villages. Villagers embraced the good lord, my hand feeding them their first communion, there were some who would not follow his word but they eventually saw the way of the lord and those that didn’t well they would see their just punishment in hell. I gained many followers as I travelled the roads, soon I had over 4 dozen people in my permanent congregation and they helped me to convert the masses and to punish those that would not be converted.
I followed the road the lord lay before me, converting the masses until I arrived here. I did what I always did I started to convert the masses but soon found that many people here already knew of the good lord and thought that there was no work for me to do here. Then I learnt that many here knew of the lord but refused to acknowledge him, worship him. So I did what I always did when I found sinners who would not renounce evil I showed them the punishment that came with such evil. I am certain now that the lord has granted me the rest I need after the long years I have served his purpose, I am now worthy of looking into the light.
“dude that guy is fucked in his head” the inmates said as they walked away from the cell of the young man with blonde locks, they looked back one last time as they made the way to their cells and they were certain that they saw blood on the corner of the bible that was firmly clasped in the hands of the smiling boy.