32. The Horseman, Or: Stay Uninvolved

The Story Must Be Told

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4.8 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It’s mighty tempting to stick one’s nose in a neighbor’s business. I myself have been guilty of sullying my neighbors’ lives with my hubris. Well here’s a lesson for you: the Story takes an interest in none of us. It has no scorn, and it has no favor. Yet, the Story plies our lives in abundance. We are the clay before a blind potter, hot on pot fever. Heed the Story: stay out of the way! Go on! Get! Invocation A Special Message From Our Sponsors at Cro-Croa Liturgical Reading: “The Horseman, Or: Stay Uninvolved” Concluding Prayer I rode a horse once that was angry as all hell. Buckin and screamin and full of hot piss and rubber’s blood. She sang a song, a creaking melody tarnished by time called “She’ll Be Comin’ 'Round the Mountain.” She ate quarters, and shit nothin at all. Goodbye, horse!

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:23.6	Thank you for joining me here, Brother Reed, of course.
0:29.6	I selected congregants before our service began to write down the name of every person who is here.
0:36.6	Names, addresses, shortcomings. Then I compared
0:40.8	it side to side with what the story had already told me weeks, months ago. About who would be here?
0:50.7	Names, addresses, shortcomings, and the story was right.
0:56.2	It predicted this.
0:58.1	And more importantly, it predicted that today not a stranger is among us.
1:05.7	And the story tells us that the man who involves himself in a stranger's business signs his own death
1:13.4	warrant. Let us say the words the story has told us. The story must be told.
1:25.4	Stand up, Martiana. Let the congregation see you.
1:32.3	Wave to them. Thank them. Tonight we will tell your story. We'll know the disgust you felt that day. We'll celebrate with you in the story. It will bubble in our hearts the way
1:48.0	sweet Crow-Croa fizzes in our yearning bellies. So then, before we tell your story, let us remind
1:56.0	ourselves of our partners at Crow-Croa and take a short break from the service.
2:02.5	Hey, you little plumbers, it's Plump Time.
2:05.9	This weekend, you can get a special one-time-only collectible two-liter of sweet
2:10.7	Cro-Croa in participating church-approved locations of Grinning Greg's Grocery.
2:16.1	Crocroa gives you the buzz you need to live your story, and it's the drink that never
2:21.3	forgets you are nothing.
2:23.3	So plump down on a sweet Crow-Croa collectible bottle while supplies last.
2:27.3	Crow-Croa!
2:29.3	Plump on it!
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