Troubling Blessings

A businessman impatiently needed blessings for long his coffins had not been bought debt-ridden and worried he was in the shop upset he was with every ill-ness survivor But glimmers of hope quivered into him mind there was a priest praying over Christian faithful to earn instant blessings from God in for petitions the debt-tortured trader was among early arrivals He went to the priest for poverty healing grace that his coffins may be bought rapidly soon to be out of debt and imminent troubling troubles but when other worshippers saw him, were uneasy Why should coffin man be blessed at our expense? whom does he want to die to offset his problems? why should we look on as coffin man gets blessings; blessings derived from our death and agonies? A notorious trouble-maker stirred congregation a good fight left over fifty dead, many maimed coffin man had slipped away safely from the riot demand for coffins shot up as customers lined-up With many trouble-makers in tombs, exile, prison The controversial blessings made the priest a hero but coffin man was happy and a devoted faithful wealth through tears of neighbors worried him not “Sainthood, sainthood, let the priest be beautified;” Coffin man could shout every night in sleep!