Greetings Dear Reader,
“Don't you draw the
Queen of Diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able”
She'll beat you if she's able”
The idea of things is a dangerous one. For years I used things to make me comfortable,
or at least to cushion my separation from others. When I was young and stupid, I chased money
for a few years. It was in an attempt to
make life easier but it also caused me to be absent and always working. I sewed the seeds of damage in my relationships
that grew into later greater failures.
When we seek isolation, we often chase material things to
comfort us. We chase the Queen of
Diamonds thinking she will satisfy our hunger for love. Several songs that I like speak about buying
love. The Queen of Diamonds hides in
things that we only think we possess. It
does not have to be a fancy car or luxury home.
It does not need to be clothes or jewelry. We surround ourselves with more than we need
hoping to love things rather than people.
Most of us have far more than is healthy. Currently everything I own will fit in my car
and I still have more than I need. We
collect so many things that we do not need if we are invested in love. We convince ourselves that we deserve these
things for our hard work. It does not
take long for our possessions to possess us.
The house always wins.
The Queen of Diamonds always beats us when she is able. She always takes our earnings and gives
little back. Here are few others song lyrics
to drive home my thinking on this:
“I am so often deterred from my actual intent by
distractions in cellophane wrap, and the cruel voice that taunts me when I open
them up to find just one more box full of crap.” – Waterdeep
“Surrounding myself with possessions, I surely have more
than I need. I don’t know if this is
justice hard earned or simply a matter of greed.” – Dan Fogelberg
“And if I had a million dollars, I buy you love.” – Barenaked
Ladies
The Queen of Diamonds offers to satisfy us and fulfill our
lives with her vast wealth. In truth,
her rough edges damage and change us. She
cuts us deeply and leaves us to bleed wondering why our transactions with her leave
us lonely and wanting. She never loves
back and secretly laughs when we profess our love to her.
If we take inventory Dear Reader, we can quickly see just
how much we have that we do not need.
Like our reasons for being hard hearted, we have reasons for loving possessions. The challenge is to look at what we can be
shed of and then listen to the quarrel within.
It is in listening to that inner war that we will hear the pitiful
reasons we have for possessing things that keep love at bay.
It is in her presence that we are captivated by the beauty of
the Queen of Diamonds. She poses as always
available but she is never attainable. She
is not our friend and she does not love us but she promises both with lying
eyes. “What does it matter if a man
gains the whole world and loses his own soul?”
If we are seeking the heart solitude of a desperado, our sad answer is
often, “how much for just the planet?”
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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