IN MY OPINION!

In the Long Gray Line,

It seemed clear that each pagan culture brings an aspect of cultural dominion into their Christian experience.

God so loved the World...that He gave His only begotten Son...

It was as though they were saying that the Irish people, were aware of the spirit of conflict and the effects and usefulness of this in the purposes of God. Conflict is an inextricable part of life after the fall. When the conflict came up, there was some sort of Christian redemption of the conflict that they engaged in, seemingly to make the conflict redemptive and a blessing. I am not privy to the specifics of the Christianization of their conflict in their Irishness. They seemed to include the conflict of their “Ire” into their courting. This seems to be stereotyping, but, I don’t think so. I think that God intends us to have dominion over the spiritual realm and uses culture to weave these spiritual powers under subjection to the Christ of the Church on the earth. Each culture has a responsibility in this realm.

In the way that Adam commissioned Eve to “mother life”. The father, in Gray Line, said, woman take out your power to pray about this. God gave them some sense of the responsibility of the woman in the spiritual realm.
It is a spiritual delegation. Let’s take this conflict into submission, they seem to say.

The Broom of God’s usefulness is given to the Christian woman in the home. Sweeping the dirt out and taking dominion over the spiritual conflicts in the home. Men cannot see this. They cannot see the connection between the milk and the sucking breast and they cannot see the connection between the wringing nose and the blood, as the scripture relates it. Woman, Mother life,
Spiritually, this is the call of motherhood.




I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. This is scripture, but the unsaid is, I do not allow a man to nurse a baby and give milk to the infant from his body. I do not allow a man to experience travail of body.

In Gray Line the elderly father seemed to say, is there a travail of soul in this conflict? Let us pray and make the suffering in our family redemptive.

Black people do this culturally. They talk of redemptive suffering, but do not work through conflicts in their homes and more often seek the ease of separation, rather than offering it up as is the cultural inheritance of many generations of in tact families.

We have the inheritance of receiving the faith of our mothers and passing it on. We have cut the family to bits and taken the power of the unified Christian family from the earth, by our greed.

The M in broom is not anathema, it is according to the theme, not the theme of separation as was the witches broom, but the M that is the broom of the at home mother.