The Trans Burden

A friend posted a paragraph about the difference between the "spiritual" and non-spiritual person, and it followed every characteristic of the "sensitive" personality claimed by many artists, poets, composers, and other "creative sorts."  There is a saying that a Saint is without imagination; that is that he is never carried away by his dreams or visions but has control of his NOUS, his spiritual mind.  Such people are the seer, able to read people and situations clearly because the Spiritual Mind is in communion with the Spirit of God so that his vision is informed by an intelligence far superior to the functions of his soulish imagination or the rationalism of his brain. 

I have a Facebook friend, a man, passing as a woman so well, not one of his Facebook friends suspects his secret. He is, in all ways else, an advocate for morality, and reasonable liberty, and strongly against the abuse of children via the Trans-movement.  Yet, in every photograph with family and friends, his beaming smile (projecting his feminine delusion) is betrayed by the expressions of the other people in the pictures he cannot see. They are being tolerant, while he thinks they are being "accepting."  They are acting, in reaction to his acting, and it is a sad stage play.  

Why does one choose such a burdensome "lifestyle?"  Do I condemn her (him) for the great and even beautiful illusion he has created?  I am reminded of the story of a great Orthodox Bishop, who standing with a group of his priests, witnessed the passing of a very famous harlot, riding in a chariot. The priests diverted their eyes, some actually turned their backs to her, but the Bishop stepped into the street and acknowledge her with a slight bow. The priests were shocked by his actions. When they protested, he said, "Look at the talented effort she expends, to create an illusion of beauty that is formed upon a body that is racing towards death and decay. It is but passing away, yet she is so careful to make everything appear perfect. She has more respect for her physical body, adorning it with beauty than most of you have for your souls that will live in eternity. Take the lesson of her work, and apply it to the preservation and beautification of your souls."  

Every time I see my sweet-natured, very beautiful Tranny friend's picture pop up on my FB News Feed, I remember the words of this wise bishop, and I think; What false images do we, in vain, work to maintain? What false facade can we jettison to apply the energy to what is real and will last?  I don't know; I'm just a prayerful sinner who spends a lot of time ripping the facade off the Fake Media, the Fake government, and the great "False Lights" in a false world.  

I thought of my FB Tranny friend this morning when a quote from Flannery O'Connor, a famous Georgia author, came to mind. She said of her stories, “action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.”