I wrote a story for everyone who scolds me for needing to be right all the time.
There was a girl with an enormous ego who was right about everything. It was her parents’ fault. From the moment she was born, they poisoned her young mind to value correctness. They punished her for telling lies. They corrected her when she misspoke. They forced her to explain the reason she held every opinion.
Years of living under her parent’s oppressive influence warped the girl’s mind. She grew to become a truly insufferable young woman. Nobody in the village liked talking to her because she intimidated them. She asked questions they could not answer and made them feel stupid. Whenever anyone made a comment, she replied by pointing out errors in logic.
One day, an overweight trans-woman with a ring in her nose and pink hair in her armpits stepped in front of the girl and screamed, “Everybody is entitled to their opinion! Stop cramming your beliefs down our throats!”
The girl, side-stepping a spray of spittle, replied, “Aren’t you cramming your belief down my throat right now?”
Enraged, the Trans-Woman battered the girl into a coma with a protest sign that read, “Love is Love.”
A few months later, the girl was released from the hospital but she was different. She no longer felt the need to be right about everything. Her ego was gone. Her narcissism was cured. She was miraculously healed of her obsession with being correct.
For the remainder of her days on Earth, the townsfolk tolerated her. She never questioned anyone about anything. She never stated her point of view. She intentionally sang the wrong lyrics to songs and sometimes put her shoes on the wrong feet. She would sit outside during rainstorms because people would call her arrogant if she went indoors.
She lived alone with over 50 cats until the day she swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. Her body wasn’t discovered for three weeks. The townsfolk all agreed that the girl had treated her cats terribly.
The End.
Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart
(Psalm 15:1)
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God tells us to seek truth, to not be conformed to this world, to be courageous in persecution, and to be ready with an answer for the hope within us. So many Churches are more interested in people pleasing ear tickling. Sad. Even supposedly Christian extended family can be persecutors when truth is discussed.
Stop message!