I never set out blogging thinking I would post three blogs concerning bathroom graffiti but it appears to be the chalkboard of life. The latest posting at my place of work was the following: "Jesus may love me but everyone else here thinks I am an ass hole". I never moved past that for the remainder of the day.
I do not know who penned those words or their life story but it is easy to hear pain coming from his life and a sense of failure. I can sympathize with his emotions because we work in an environment that values production and profits over its people. It seems this has become corporate America.
This bathroom scrawl was a plea to be heard and the only place available was a bathroom stall. Some may interject that this person could be a hothead, someone hard to get along with, or a general malcontent. I suppose any of those are possibilities but the messenger is not completely cynical he still senses that "Jesus loves him." Yet, I would wager there are days he even doubts that.
I will never meet the bathroom wall author and his voice of complaint will never be discussed in the corporate office nor published in a letter to the editor, but I am glad he took what space he had and emoted his thoughts. I pray he senses that in some way he was heard and that his life is of worth. I continue to believe that very raw and real expressions of pain are heard by God as acceptable prayers.
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