Wednesday, July 26, 2006

The Interesting Thing of Evil

Work has been interesting this week, and again reinforces the fact of true evil in the world. I have the (un)fortunate job of working with sex offenders some of the time. The reason there is parentheses is that sometimes i really enjoy the challenge.
However, this is not one of those weeks. I am starting to see how evil the world is, and am being really disturbed by it. Now, some of it is par for the course, but yesterday I heard a client tell me things that creeped me out and made my hair stand on end. Which is odd. I thought i had dulled that down over the last few months. But the thing is, i truely beleive there is levels of how evil people are and sometimes you experience pure evil. I once read a book by Father Malichi Martin. He is one of my heroes. He was the primary exorcist for the vatican in the US for a number of years.
For a long time i did not believe that demon posession was real or what i read about it. But it is, i think some people just chose to give up the struggle and give in. This really messess with my theology, but i know someday it will all make sense. But it really does a number on me. I wonder what role God has me in these moments. I feel a bit lost, but i know it will all work out.
But the whole process is creepy.

1 Comments:

At 4:13 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

A lot of what happened is probably a manifestation of what is in your client reacting to (and fighting with) what is within you. Which means that what is controlling your client probably makes your session worse (for you) then if the client worked with someone else. Just remember that He that is in you is greater then he that is in the world.
Also, I hate to quote from a movie but, "the greatest lie the devil ever told was convincing the world he didn't exist."

 

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