Table Of Confusion

There are two places that have “tables of confusion.”  One is Catholic elementary schools and the other is AA meetings.  Religion class starts too soon with Catechism and never with the question, “Why are you here.”  The child is rarely there because they want to be there in religion class.  Nor do they connect the catechism with any need that they have at the moment.  They endure, learn answers, get a bit enthused here and there, and when school is done, they leave the practice of that religion.  They enter confused.  They know little or nothing when they begin classes, and anywhere they sit is “a table of confusion.”  In AA wherever a newcomer sits, is probably a table of confusion.  But if they come there out of desperation, and wanting to escape misery and have a better life, they of course will understand little. But others in the room simply tell them to come back.  If the newcomer keeps coming back, the fog will lift.  They will be in the same seat or at the same table but it will no longer be a table of confusion.  The light will shine in the darkness.  But you have to know you are in the darkness.  Religion does not wait until the student is ready.  AA does.  God/Higher Power are both very patient.  My blogs are for people who are ready.  Others think me a bit of an idiot.  Which is also too true.