In this week’s podcast, Cring takes a look at the struggle between prejudice and originality, and exposes the futility of judging other people.

Walking through the after-story of Adam and Eve leads us to a better understanding of how to handle our own disappointments.

TRANSCRIPT

Standing on the outside–abandoned, abolished, ostracized. No longer required. Not welcome.

Out cast. Cast out.

Happens quickly. A single mistake. A pattern of behavior causing a fear from the masses demanding your quarantine.

It happened to them.

They were so young, this unruly pair. A boy, a girl. So much to share.

Just couldn’t get it straight.

For them, straight seemed wrong.

So they sealed their fate.

Quickly. Not too long.

Disapproval. Alienation.

Made to feel like a strange creation.

Peered at. Probed. Questioned.

Or worse, ignored.

Standing there … naked and alone.

Alone, except for the one who shares your punishment. Your comrade in peculiarity. Your like-minded, brain-dead accomplice.

How can this work? After all, you offended the Most High God. Numero Uno. The Top Hat. The Pinnacle of the Peak of the Smoky-Topped Mountain.

Where do you go from there? After all, if you piss off family members, you can wait around until they need you, and then try to make amends.

But when will God really need you?

The worst part is, everyone knows. You don’t belong. You are no longer welcome. The gate hit you in the ass on your way out.

All you hear are warnings, condemnations–slightly sweetened by the realization that they are deemed the Word of God.

Religious jargon

Is no bargain.

Leaves you cryin’

Cause you’re dyin’.

Finds you squealin’

Accused of stealin’

Alone together.

Together alone.

At least that’s how the story goes. An amazing fable it is, although the creatures who hold it dear would be greatly offended by the word “fable.” Just with that piece of wording, they would have to cast you out.

There’s so little joy left in the heart of the fanatic once he has sold his soul to restriction. All he has left is to hurt you.

What should Adam say to Eve? Or her to him, as they stand for that solitary moment of shame outside the Garden? No chance to gain pardon.

But listen, my children–they did find something to say to one another.

Rather than being like the sons they birthed,

Who killed over a piece of turf,

They took the love they had for one another,

Tucked it away for another day.

They kept the world alive even though they felt cold and dead.

Some may tout the great love of God, but in this moment let us celebrate the love of Adam and Eve–persisting together.

The critical storm they did weather.

And birthed a generation of humans who saw no perfection

But still began to make a better selection.

It is possible.

And if possible is done enough times, it becomes plausible.

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About Author

Jonathan Cring

Our story is told from where we begin. For Jonathan Richard Cring, this was music. First he sang songs, played songs and then one day it occurred to him that he might like to write one. He actually wrote two that morning and rather enjoyed it. This opened the door to people recording his music, ending up in Nashville, Tennessee, with a contract. Having read a book, he had an itch to write one. The first one was small. It was called "The Gospel According to Common Sense." But fourteen books later, he has accumulated a considerable journal of his journey and heart. In the process, he had four sons and was godfather to three others. One of these young men wanted to be a filmmaker. Scripts were required, so Papa Cring wrote thirteen screenplays which ended up being produced into independent feature-length films which won awards at twenty-eight film festivals. While perusing websites for his movie career, Jonathan discovered blogs. He decided to write one and called it Jonathots Daily Blog. That was in 2008. Thousands and thousands of entries, which extended to additional blog categories--one called Jonathots, Jr.--pictures with euphemisms, and Words from Dic(tionary)--taking the Webster classic in its alphabetical order, and writing mostly comical essays on each word. Sitting around the table at Christmas time, his children encouraged him to begin a podcast. In 2018, he began one called Good News and Better News. It is a content-filled tongue-in-cheek look at American culture with the contention that life really doesn't suck. Bouncing off what has been done while discovering what is available has created the arc of the career for Jonathan Richard Cring.
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