Apparently, his bigger brother, the Big Black Dog, has decided he has other people to worry---go visit Mary Sue at Order of Santa Ignora and you'll see what I mean. (Mary Sue, if you see this, I tried to leave a comment on your blog but it wouldn't go through. I'm praying for you.)
So I'm getting the best of this one, but it's tired me out.
I do want to say that having Davis and Josh visit us was a real blessing. My fellow parishioners were wowed by both of them.
As you might imagine, Davis is as warm and engaging as any native Southerner---he fit right in from the moment he stepped off the plane. I knew his story of course---but to hear him tell it still brought tears to my eyes.
One of my friends at church called me after the afternoon forum and said "I feel as if I've just heard Frederick Douglass." I did too.
And Josh may be quiet, but when he does speak up, it's like E.F. Hutton ...everybody listens.
I don't think I will ever forget the way Josh wrapped up the forum---which was quite tense, given the presence of a combative Nigerian who had come to upbraid Davis for spreading what he termed "the gospel of gay."
Josh coolly and calmly reminded everyone of why Davis was there---to shed light on the willingness of certain bishops (!) in our worldwide communion to lie, slander, steal, and even expose certain members of their flock to persecution, violence, and possible death while claiming the moral high ground.
If you haven't donated to Davis' fund and you have the funds to do so, please go to Dailyoffice.org and do so. Right. Now.
Trust me---unless there is illness or death in your Circle of Life, there is NOTHING you have to do today that is more important than this. Davis is doing the work of God, at the risk of his own life. The least we can do is open our wallets to support him.
To Davis and Josh, I say "Thank you!" and "Y'all come back soon, now--ya hear?"
(I made the Dog stay outside.)
18 comments:
Great to see three smiling faces!
Doxy, thanks for the report. So you had a Nigerian of the opposition to liven things up. I wonder if this is arranged at every stop where Davis speaks.
Three lovely, smiling faces.
Davis and Josh, if you read this, God bless you in your travels. You are doing the Lord's work.
So you had a Nigerian of the opposition to liven things up. I wonder if this is arranged at every stop where Davis speaks.
Actually, this was homegrown, in a way. We have a wonderful Nigerian family in our parish, who have always seemed to me to be very inclusive and accepting.
The father just happened to have a friend who had moved here from Nigeria two weeks earlier, and he invited the man to come. I was really proud of the way members of my parish were polite to the man, but gave him no quarter. The message was: "You can peddle that nonsense in other places if you like, but---in THIS place---you will not go unchallenged!"
As Leonardo is fond of saying, "[My] Episcopal Church welcomes EVERYONE!"
The funny part is that I now have a picture of the man with Davis--he insisted on being in the photos! So if the anti-gay law that +Akinola supports gets passed, our combative Nigerian friend could possibly go to prison, just for being in the same place with Davis and the rest of us homo-loving American apostates. Poetic justice, don't you think? ;-)
Just a disclaimer - I am not Davis Mac-Iyalla - but yet another of those gay Davises...
You could never be "yet another" gay Davis, my dear. You are in a fabulous league of your own.
I am heartsick that I did not get a photo of the two of US. You will just have to come and visit me down here---though I'm afraid my parish lacks the exquisite beauty of yours. What we lack in professional musical talent and stained glass windows, however, we make up for in food. ;-)
Look at those happy faces!
And P....I do think you look a bit like me, when I was thinner. (Which all my pics online are of when I was thinner - by at least 20lbs).
Love it!
I'm so looking forward to Davis' visit to Dallas (he'll be at St. Thomas on June 30).
Love the pic, too. You're a real cutie ;)
::mutters to himself, "I'm a married spud, I'm a married spud..." ::
David---it would never work. You are a 96 and I am a 22. ;-) (But thanks for the compliment!)
Eileen--I lost 210 lbs. in the divorce. Twenty of those were mine. ;-) (Divorce is a pretty drastic way to lose weight though---I suspect that diet and exercise are more reasonable, and less expensive, options.)
Doxy, that happened to several friends of mine at divorce time and our phrase for the phenomenon was "Personal Disaster Diet."
Beautiful account of Davis's presentation and wonderful photograph. Thanks for the reminder that not all of us are over-the-hill. And next time, with the dog - OK? Love.
::slight sarcasm + big grin::
Awww come on, us geeks aren't that bad. I can actually fake "normal human" quite well ;-> (and note, according to a test Eileen pointed me towards, I'm more of a Literature Nerd than anything else :)
Doxy, I laughed out loud at your "210 pounds" lost. Yeah, I lost 185 (20 mine) last year.
I'm not Episcopalian, so wasn't up to date on this guy, but I'm getting the picture and so glad you shared. Hooray. What a ministry!
Oh, and blessings on your fight with the dog. I know that dog. Shoo, puppy, shoo!
LOL@ Y'all!
Tag Doxy, your it! Five Things I Dig About Jesus Meme.
If you play, post back at my place.
Doxy, tagged for eight random things too. My apologies and please ignore if you've already been tagged.
Doxy, is that you? Hi! (Waves.) You look FABulous! :)
I keep my small black dog in the yard. The squirrels distract him. It's good. (Pesky dogs.)
If a squirrel ever hit the ground in my backyard, it'd last about half a second. We have two Cairn Terriers who are quite the hyperactive hunting dogs.
They'll also spend hours at their &%$!@ barking at the $#!*^ squirrels who're too smart to come down out of the trees ;)
(pesky dogs)
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