Nausea

But because thou art lukewarm,

and neither cold, not hot,

I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.

(Revelation 3:16,

Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible)

I have

for years

held an intellectual understanding

of the Lord’s rebuke

of the lukewarm Laodecian church.

But my understanding

of late

has undergone

a transformation.

The intellectual has become visceral.

It happened as I suddenly awoke

to the speed at which

moral decay is sweeping our land,

putrefication so noxious

it surely stinks

to the highest heaven.

While all the while

the hand-wringing,

speeches and statements

of churchmen and women

of all labels,

but especially of leaders

appointed by God

to lead His flock . . . .

While all the while the Church,

except for rare exceptions–

remains stunningly silent,

willfully impotent,

and spinelessly unwilling

to mount an offense neither for God,

nor for His sheep.

I understand the Lord’s nausea

over a lukewarm Church.

I’m a little nauseous myself.