Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The First Stone Has Been Cast

Nearly 2000 years have passed since the event took place… A humble woman, a sinner, forced into the market place to be mocked, ridiculed and judged by self proclaimed men of god. These holier-than-thou men thought that death was the appropriate punishment for the indiscretions of her past life, a life she had chosen to leave behind. The cries for her blood grew louder until one man, with wisdom beyond human comprehension, stood in her defense.

Some 2000 years later the Madonna of our times (in the Italian sense, not the whore singer sense), the picture of perfection, the living gospel herself, The Bonnie lay in agonizing pain in a hospital room. Her own kidneys had betrayed her, less than two months after her own gall bladder had betrayed her in the same way, by producing life threatening stones in order to fulfill the destiny of the sinner 2000 years before.

I know what you are thinking… What does The Bonnie have in common with a sinner? Your answer might be “nothing” and you would be correct, and yet, somehow their fates were meant to be intertwined… Some 2000 years ago a wise man stood by a sinners side and said, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” 2000 years later, The Bonnie took him up on that offer.

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